Crafting Masterpieces: 3 Classic Books on Handicrafts for Boys
Vintage Projects in Toy Making, Paper Craft, Woodwork, and Creative LearningBy Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Marian Elizabeth Bailey, A. Neely Hall, Ella Victoria Dobbs
Length14h 30m
About this audiobook
Crafting Masterpieces gathers three classic guides to handicraft for boys into a compact record of early twentieth-century manual education, domestic creativity, and practical design. Across its pages, instructional prose meets workshop-minded encouragement: projects in wood, paper, simple construction, and decorative making invite readers to see handicraft as both useful labor and imaginative expression. The collection's varied pedagogical voices preserve a period when making was understood to cultivate patience, observation, self-reliance, and aesthetic judgment. Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Marian Elizabeth Bailey, A. Neely Hall, and Ella Victoria Dobbs represent overlapping traditions of children's literature, art education, craft instruction, and accessible technical writing. Their contributions situate the volume within the broader Arts and Crafts legacy and progressive educational interest in learning by doing. Although shaped by the gendered assumptions of their original audience, these texts also reveal how instructional literature translated artistic and industrial ideals into attainable activities for young makers. Together, the authors offer a rich historical picture of craft as a social, educational, and cultural practice. This volume is recommended for readers interested in the history of childhood, material culture, design education, and hands-on creativity. Its multiple approaches make it valuable both as a sourcebook of projects and as an archive of changing ideas about skill, play, and instruction. Read together, these guides foster a revealing dialogue between practical technique and the enduring pleasures of making.
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GenreOther
Length14 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Boys' Make-at-Home Things
2PREFACE
3ILLUSTRATIONS
4THE MAKING OF TOOLS NECESSARY FOR WHITTLING
5HOW TO MAKE A PRACTICAL WORKBENCH
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6WORKBENCH ACCESSORIES
7HOW TO MAKE A TURNING LATHE
8HOW TO MAKE A TOY TRAIN
9OUT-DOOR TOYS
10HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN DESK SET
11WILD ANIMALS YOU CAN MAKE
12HOW TO MAKE A SET OF MISSION FURNITURE
13TOYS THAT HIDE IN THE WOOD BOX
14THE WONDERFUL DODO BIRD
15A FLEET OF TOY BOATS
16HOW TO MAKE A PLAY TENT
17HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN TOPS
18THE FARM THE SCISSORS BUILT
19MORE BOX PLAYS
20A RECIPE FOR A NOAH’S ARK
21HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN UNIFORM
22JOINTED TOY ANIMALS. HOW TO MAKE THEM
23YOUR OWN CIRCUS
24BEAD WORK FOR BOYS
25HOW TO MAKE STICK PICTURES
26A TOY INDIAN VILLAGE
27CORN TOYS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM
28HOW TO MAKE A MARBLE BAG
29HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN SCHOOL BOX
30A HOME-MADE CHRISTMAS TREE STAND
31HOW TO WRAP CHRISTMAS PARCELS
32YOUR OWN WIRELESS RECEIVING STATION
33Primary Handwork
34Primary Handwork
35PRIMARY HANDWORK
36CHAPTER III
37CHAPTER VI
38CHAPTER VIII
39The Boy Craftsman
40The Boy Craftsman
41LIST OF HALF-TONE ILLUSTRATIONS
42PART I Profitable Pastimes (pt. 1)
43PART I Profitable Pastimes (pt. 2)
44Part II Outdoor Pastimes
45PART III Indoor Pastimes (pt. 1)
46PART III Indoor Pastimes (pt. 2)
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