Common and Classic Folk and Peasant Color Book Art for Young Children

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Books

• Design from Peasant Art, by Kathleen Mann - first published 1939, republished 1952 (Out of print, hard to find book)
• Peasant Costume in Europe Book I, by Kathleen Mann (Out of print, hard to find book)
• Peasant Costume in Europe Book II, by Kathleen Mann (Out of print, hard to find book)
• Big Book of Applique for Quilts and Banners, Clothes, Hangings, Gifts & More by Virginia Avery (Out of print book but easily available)

Online Books

• Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving (Gutenberg Project)
• Beeton's Book of Needlework (Gutenberg Project)
• Art in Needlework (Gutenberg Project)
• Encyclopedia of Needlework (Gutenberg Project) fantastic resource
• Project Gutenberg's Encyclopedia of Needlework

Reference Websites

• Niko Pirosmanashvili Gallery
• Estonian Folk Art in the 18th century
• Romanian Craftmanship
• Croation Cultural Heritage
• Pennsylvania Dutch Hex Designs
• Church Street Art Gallery
• Hungarian Folk Art
• Aboriginal Art Symbols
• Online Encyclopedia of Symbols
• Symbols & Symbolism
• Milimili Dolls (Nesting Dolls)
• Cicim Kilim Rugs: Pure Nomadic Art of Turkey
• Turkish Folk Art good examples of tribal weavings and art
• Folk Art Clipart fotosearch.com

Wikipedia.org

• Folk Art Wikipedia.org
  • Alebrije brightly-colored Mexican folk art
  • African folk art
  • American Folk Art Museum
  • Latin American Retablos Latin American devotional painting
  • Madhubani painting Indian painting, practiced in the Mithila region of Bihar state, India
  • Mingei Japanese hand-crafted art of ordinary people
  • Naïve art
  • Nakshi Kantha embroidered quilt folk art of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India
  • Outsider art artists who have had little or no contact with mainstream art or art institutions
  • Pakistani vehicle art decorated trucks and buses in Pakistan
  • Warli painting ritual wall paintings
  • Chinese painting
  • Chinese folk art
  • History of Chinese art
  • Balinese art
  • Maya art

Symbolism

• Museum of International Folk Art
• Art Encyclopedia Locate Artists by Movement: Folk Art
• Folk Art History.com
• Carpatho-Rusyn Pysanky - Color and Beauty at Eastertime. Symbols and motifs explained
• Symbols for Ukrainian Easter Eggs
• Pysanky Symbols and Meanings
• What do pysanka symbols mean
• Animal Symbolism - Many Cultures
• Color Symbol - Many Cultures
• Directory of Signs, Glyphs and Symbols
• Guide to Symbols
• Symbolism

Interesting Folk Stories in Project Gutenberg

• More Russian Picture Tales by by Valery Carrick, 1914-1020 (Gutenberg Project)
• The Witch and Other Stories
• Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen (Gutenberg Project)
• Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
• Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland
• Fairies and Folk of Ireland
• Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold
• Fairy Tales from Brazil
• Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories, The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1
• Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky
• Eskimo Folktales
• Hawaiian Folk Tales, A Collection of Native Legends
• Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales
• Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building, Volume I (of 17) Fun and Thought for Little Folk
• Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian

Activities for Children

• Make a Cardboard Folkart Weathervane (Site has pop-up advertising)
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• Easter Gift Wrap Print your own giftwrap for small gifts