An exhibition catalogue of eighteen fine C16th and C17th examples of needlework and stumpwork.  Illustrated in large colour and b&w plates.  Paperback.  20 pages.  In good clean condition.  Cat No n237 

Abstracts from an International Conference held in Estonia on heritage folk music, music folklore, and ethnomusicology, from the Baltic States, Croatia, Iceland, Finland, Hungary, and several Russian territories - Mordovia, Karelia, Volga, and Siberia. Text throughout in English.

A catalogue of the finest private collection of early Islamic carpets gathered during the last half of the C20th and subsequently dispersed to museum's around the world but brought together one last time for this exhibition at the Hayward Gallery.

The author discusses the use of bone and horn during the Stone age and then proceeds to the Middle Ages and Renaissance when bone and horn were used to make decorative boxes, handles and powder horns.

An unusual survey of examples where fossils have been incorporated into ancient jewelley or depicted in modern advertising.

The author, a noted book illustrator and belletomane, describes how he formed a large collection of English women's dresses, dating mainly from the C18th and C19th, and assembled between the 1930's and 1960's when such collecting was relatively low cost and unregarded.

Attractive illustrated guide to the folk art of devotional wax sculptures and simple wax tableaux produced in Bavaria and Switzerland from C18th.  Text in German.  Many colour photographs.  Hardback.  70 pages.  Good clean condition.  Cat No 3899

An exhibition catalogue depicting 45 premier examples of historic samplers with accompanying text providing details of materials, technique and subject, as well as the genealogical research into the children who created them. Large format paperback.  48 pages.

Guide to the respective elements that make up the traditional decoration of old canal barges - castles. roses and geometric shapes that adorn the cabin blocks, doors, deck lids, butties, water cans, bowls and masthead lamps.  Paperback.  24 pages.

This journal issue includes papers on the rushcarts of the North-West England, another on the traditional methods of seaweed collecting in Ireland, and one on the longhouses of Donegal.  Paperback.  112 pages.  New condition.  Cat No 2895