Pavilion Books: 614 books
Colour Therapy
An introductory Guide to the Healing Power of Colour
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
We all know what a strong effect colour has on us. In fact, colour healing has been used by mankind throughout history. The ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all used colour in a variety ways to treat different ailments. This accessible introduction gives practical advice on how to make the most...
Stitch Stories
Personal places, spaces and traces in textile art
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The events of your life, from local walks to exotic trips, can provide endless inspiration for textile art. This inspiring book shows you how to record your experiences, using sketchbooks, journals and photography, to create personal narratives that can form a starting point for more finished stitched-textile...
Stitch Draw
Sketching and drawing in stitch and textile art
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
A guide to figurative stitching with the sewing machine - using the thread and needle almost as a pencil. A look that is growing in popularity, figurative stitch work needs some guidance and a leading exponent of the style reveals the basics but also how to expand your repertoire to really showcase...
Paul Sinha's Real British Citizenship Test
Everything you need to know to call yourself British
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Since 2005, well over one million prospective immigrants have attempted to cement permanent residency in the UK by taking the Home Office-devised ‘Life in the UK’ test. With questions such as ‘What is the name of the admiral who died in a sea battle in 1805 and has a monument in Trafalgar Square,...
Her Ladyship's Guide to Greeting the Queen
and Other Questions of Modern Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Choosing how to behave in unfamiliar situations is one of the many minefields with which modern life abounds. In this amusing yet practical guide to modern manners, Her Ladyship offers invaluable advice on every aspect of etiquette, both royal and everyday. With guidance on basic good manners in a...
Her Ladyship's Guide to the British Season
The essential practical and etiquette guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Great Britain has a long tradition of spectacular seasonal events, parties, pomp and ceremony. But times have moved on since the days of formal manners and dress codes and with many exclusive events now accessible to everyone, it can be tricky to know where to go, what to wear and how to act. Luckily,...
by Carolyn Denham, Roderick Field
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Keep it simple and do it well. The Merchant & Mills Sewing Book contains fifteen step-by-step projects aimed at guiding you gently but firmly through the basics of sewing. Each project you make from this book will be stylish, but above all, useful. Part I of the book presents a fundamental overview...
How To Resolve Conflicts
Turn conflict into cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Conflict distorts relationships - whether it takes the form of international disputes between countries or cross words exchanged with friend, work colleagues or family members. All too often conflict can slip out of control, with tragic consequences - as seen, for example, in so-called ‘road rage’...
London Night and Day
the insider's guide to London 24 hours a day
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Like New York, London can be enjoyed all day and all night. This insider's guide gives you the gen on where, when and how to enjoy London at any hour. It covers places to stay, places to eat, drink, dance and be entertained and informed. Including all the main and famous places in London but with...
There Was An Old Geezer Called Caesar
A History of the world in 100 limericks
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
There is a young fellow named Mick Who's adapted the old limerick To cover, with mirth The whole history of Earth And what made its characters tick. There Was An Old Geezer Called Caesar is 100 lively and humorous limericks that take us back to before the beginning of time itself and right up until...
Easy to Make! Curtains & Blinds
Expert Advice, Techniques and Tips for Sewers
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
Practical advice and step-by-step instructions for window dressing. Suitable for both beginners and experienced curtain-makersStunning designs and inspiration for every room in your home Making curtains needn't be left to the professionals - with Easy to Make! Curtains and Blinds you, too, can create...
London's Underworld
Three Centuries of Vice and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
London’s Underworld takes us on the nightmarish last journeys of condemned criminals to the gallows at Tyburn. We enter death-trap eighteenth century prisons, one of which the novelist Henry Fielding described as a ‘prototype of hell’. We walk the crowded streets of Victorian London with its...
Regency Women's Dress
Techniques and Patterns 1800-1830
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
The distinctive style of the Regency period is a source of endless fascination for fashion academics and historians, living historians, re-enactors and costume designers for stage and screen. Author and fashion historian Cassidy Percoco has delved into little-known museum hoards to create a stunning...
by Patrick John Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
The bestselling New Fashion Figure Templates has been providing help for fashion students and fashion designers for decades and this new expanded edition will provide help for generations to come. The new edition includes over 200 templates of men, women, teens, and children on perforated pages for...