Griffiths Mark Boeken

If you've always admired experienced makers woodwork but felt too daunted to try wood as a hobby yourself, this title helps to change your mind. It includes twenty easy-to-make projects that give you the confidence to give wood a try, and each project gives such good results that even beginners will want to make them all.

Touches on the lotus in ancient Egypt and India and on the plant's medicinal uses, as well as the inspiration it has provided to Western artists. This book shows how the deep crimson of the lotus runs like a tracer dye, tracking the spread, fusion and fission of the world's great civilizations.