Books published by David & Charles

Includes projects that show how to make a range of simple bags, from shoppers and simple day-time bags, to evening bags, cosmopolitan weekend bags and even a laundry bag. This book focuses on fabric choice and embellishments, such as ribbon, buttons and beads.

Presents a collection of 55 beaded jewellery projects. This work helps you to create necklaces, cute charm bracelets, earrings and watches from a range of beads. It explores a variety of easy-to-follow techniques, including bead-weaving, bead stitching and twisting wire. It also includes practical advice, step-by-step instructions and photographs.

Readers will learn how to make 35 unique celebration cakes and mini cakes, with expert, easy-to-follow instruction from Lindy Smith, author of the bestselling Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible. Lavish colour photos display a unique variety of traditional and contemporary styles, from florals and frills to stripes and beadwork.

A fun comprehensive course to painting animals in watercolour.

Features 75 card and 25 tag designs in a range of colours and styles. This title includes instructions and photographs.

A collection of sayings and verses, especially suitable for cardmakers and scrapbookers.

Offers an introduction to drawing. This work shares the author's many inventive and foolproof drawing techniques with many art materials - developed from years of teaching both beginners and improvers. Each chapter explores how to draw a popular subject, starting with art technique - focused exercises before moving on to a step-by-step drawing.

The perfect guide to making the most of the latest strip rolls.

A guide for the discerning tourist and island devotee, it describes the islands' heritage, landscape, climate, flora and fauna. It contains information about the key places of interest, from the rugged beaches, to the ancient buildings and ruins steeped in history. It is illustrated with over 100 colour photographs.

Provides tips tailored to players of various levels, giving alternate strategies for dealing with common situations encountered on the golf course, whatever your standard. This title includes colour step-by-step photographs, advice from PGA teaching professionals, and instruction on how to achieve each type of shot.

Over 100 irresistible ways to bake, frost, decorate, display, and indulge in cupcakes.

Featuring more than 100 photographs, this is a reference guide to the many aspects of portrait photography, from informal social photography to professional commissions. It also includes 100 practical techniques and tips for finding new ways of composing portraits, making the most of colour, and earning a living as a professional portraitist.

Schooling your horse is fundamental to any equestrian activity. This book enables you to plan the exercises you want to ride according to you and your horse's level of ability. Each exercise is accompanied by an aerial illustration of the arena and additional diagrams showing the rider's position.

Includes 10 chapters, which feature a range of designs including the Celtic fairy queen, Chinese dragons, beautiful mermaids and a majestic unicorn. This book features colour charts and project making-up instructions.

A collection of over 30 stylish knitted accessories for various seasons, from gloves and scarfs, to hats and ponchos. This work takes into account the choice of yarns available to the modern knitter, and focuses on using these to maximum effect.

A guide to Britain's monarchs and their chequered histories, from pre-Roman times onwards. It explores lives and personalities of each monarch, their involvement in and effect on events in their reign. It provides information on the spirit, traditions and innovations of the nation at the time, including politics, arts, architecture and fashions.

Discover the fascinating and pricise craft of paperfolding, and create amazing gifts and cards for any occasion.

Features six core paper folding techniques, including teabag folding, origami, and iris folding. This title includes over 25 original projects that make gifts for many occasions, including Christmas, birthdays and anniversaries.

Offering an introduction to painting with acrylics, this book explores the potential of acrylics.

Giving advice for those wishing to capture the beauty of the urban landscape, this guide annotates artworks in a range of styles and media to demonstrate techniques and details. It includes studies of a range of different architectural styles, from town houses and rural cottages to churches and continental cafes.

Crewelwork is one of the oldest embroidery techniques, but it is as popular today as it has ever been. Historically worked in soft wools on twilled linens, today's embroiderer is discovering just how successfully the techniques can be applied to stranded cotton threads and a wider variety of fabrics.

A unique collection of behind-the-scenes stories and anecdotes as told, in their own words, by former Grand Prix mechanics who have worked at the top level of the sport during the past 50 years.On the front line of the sport, mixing with drivers and team bosses, they saw a side of it that nobody else got to see and rarely gets to hear about - and this book tells their story, supplemented by photographs from the archives and photo albums of the mechanics themselves, many of which are previously unpublished.

Over 200 all-new crochet pattern stitches, embellishments and trims make this the one-stop shop for all creative crocheters.

This book explores the history of Welsh quilting with a gallery of photographs of Wales' quilt treasures. Techniques range from traditional hand piecing and quilting methods to modern rotary cutting and machine techniques. Information on selecting fabrics and colours, with a pattern library of traditional Welsh quilting templates.

A guide, which demonstrates techniques to help make the best of photography, as well as tutorials in achieving the most commonly encountered digital manipulations. It offers advice on how to get the best from printing photographs at home or at a commercial lab.

Features over 100 jewellery projects, including necklaces, pendants, bracelets, earrings, brooches, pins and hair-slides. This book provides coverage of various aspects from bead purchase and storage to jewellery making and even display and selling. It features beads and components from worldwide sources.

A guide that demystifies digital exposure for the amateur and professional alike. It shows how to transform an average photo into a first-rate one by mastering in-camera exposure controls and making final adjustments in-computer.