Ribbons And Trims 100 Ideas for Personalizing Your Home

Refresh. Restore. Reinvent. From curtains, blinds, bedcovers, and furniture to cushions, throws, lampshades, and photo frames-- absolutely any item in your home can be updated, customized, and given a fresh new look, simply and easily. In "Ribbons and Trims," Annabel Lewis, founder of Europe's famous ribbons and trimmings company, V. V. Rouleaux, provides a wealth of ideas and step-by-step projects for ways to decorate and embellish items all around the home. This unique and creative guide offers simple techniques for making accessories like tassels, knots, braids, flowers, and tiebacks, as well as 25 projects with clear instructions for creating pieces that are upholstered with ribbon or trimmed with feathers, shells, beads, or buttons. There are also inspiring ideas for every room in the home-- whether it's embellishing your entryway walls with stripes of elegant grosgrain ribbon, decorating a dining table with customized place card holders or dressing your everyday coat hangers in luscious ribbon remnants. Illustrated with gorgeous color photographs and peppered with inventive ideas and tips sure to inspire both the beginner crafter and the expert home decorator alike, "Ribbons and Trims" will help you to elevate your home de cor to new heights.Lewis, Annabel is the author of 'Ribbons And Trims 100 Ideas for Personalizing Your Home', published 2007 under ISBN 9780307347619 and ISBN 0307347613.