Finally, a creative book on how to beautifully display your family's history!
We are all fascinated by the families we have descended from, and whether you
have collected generations of genealogical research or merely want to document
your extended family or grandchildren, 'The Art of the Family Tree' offers a
beautiful array of projects to highlight and celebrate them.
From lovely 'espalier' family trees that hang on the wall, to keepsake books
and albums, to creative sculptural family trees, you will surely find wonderful
projects to artfully document your family's heritage. There simple projects
include clip-art and royalty-free reproducible templates for new crafters, along
with more detailed ideas for customising and embellishing for more experience
paper artists. There are images of trees, pages of old books, sheet music, and a
blank family group sheet.
Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
Getting Started
1. Planting Your Family Tree
- Top Down and Bottoms Up
- Using What You Have
- Solving Tricky Family Dilemmas
- Telling Your Ance-story
- Adopting Ancestors
2. Espalier Trees: Art for the Wall
- Branching Out: Shadowboxed Tree
- A Layered Family: Collaged Canvas
- Family Orchard: Watercolour Tree
- Quilted Memories: Circle Chart Assemblage
3. Leafing Through the Years: Book Art
- The Woman Who Made the Men: Ancestral Star Book
- Soft-Sided Memories: Fabric Journal Collection Book
- Fanned and Frilly: Altered Board Book
- Framed and Quartered: Coin Collector's Book
- Hiding Jacob's Ladder: Wooden Book and Shrine
- Library of Relatives: Mini Journals Collection
4. Tree Houses: Three-Dimensional Family Trees
- Sadie's Girls: Paper and Wire Sculpture
- It's All Relatives: Paper Topiary Tree
- Mossy Momentos: Standing History Wreath
- My Family by the Sea: Sea Fan Assemblage
5. Inspirational Trees: A Gallery of Solutions
6. A Beginner's Guide to Researching Family History
Suggested Reading
Templates and Clip-Art
Resources
Stores
About the Contributing Artists
About the Author
Acknowledgements
