Tasha Tudor's Heirloom Crafts by Richard W. Brown, Tovah Martin (1995, Hardcover, Illustrated)

If you love the crafts of yesteryear, this book is for you. The pictures and descriptions take you, the reader, back into another time when cloth was spun, the dark was lit by candlelight, and styles were timeless. The book is full of colorful pictures of Tasha's home, handbuilt by her son Seth using methods of yesteryear. Creating baskets, spinning yarn, making soap, and her handmade marionettes leap from the page as all in a day's progress at Tasha's farm and takes you back into a time when life was simpler, and less frenetic. In this book, Tasha shows how she came about her 'eccentric' lifestyle, with a tour of her dollhouse collection, her antique clothing collections, and her gardens and pets. I bought this book myself because many of the crafts that are considered heirloom are still practiced by some of my family, and are treasured activities that we keep alive. Definitely a book for the crafty person, pictures are breathtaking!