Alchemy Arts: Recycling Is Chic

by Di Jennings and Kate MacKay

Book Overview

Alchemy Arts is a community-based arts project in Edinburgh that collects scrap from businesses and households and uses it to create artworks, workshops, and parades in the city. This book takes their philosophy one stage further and offers projects in fashion, home design, and crafts for individuals to make or adapt themselves.

Includes ingenious uses for packs of old playing cards (a top hat for fancy dress), old ties stitched into dresses,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714532002
• ISBN13: 9780714532004
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.9"