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Updated edition available January 2009! *
The Craft and Art of Bamboo
30 Elegant Projects to Make for Home and Garden
by Carol Stangler
(Lark Books, 2001)

A Book that Covers the Beauty, History, and How-To's of Bamboo.

• Detailed instructions for creating bamboo fences, screens, garden structures, and interior home furnishings
• Harvesting, storing, cleaning and preparing bamboo
• Tools, materials and techniques for working with bamboo

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** COMING JANUARY 2009 **
THE CRAFT & ART OF BAMBOO - UPDATED TO INCLUDE
BAMBOO'S ROLE AS A RAPIDLY RENEWABLE MATERIAL
FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY

Author Carol Stangler has revised the first three chapters to focus on bamboo's emergence as one of nature’s most productive renewable resources. All other chapters remain the same as the original book, giving the reader detailed information with over 200 color photos and 50 illustrations.

Revised Edition includes:
Bamboo’s eco-friendly properties

- unsurpassed air cleaner
- rapidly renewable substitute for wood
- quick-growing biomass for fiber, biofuel, bioplastics
Bamboo’s role in cultural traditions

- indigenous bamboo continues to be used in South America for housing
- restoration of indigenous "rivercane" in the SE United States
Bamboo’s contribution to the garden

- once established, is drought resistant
- provides cooling shade and reduces heat build-up
- offers habitat for birds and mammals
Keeping bamboo from spreading

- digging a rhizome trap
- installing a plastic barrier
To receive notification when the new edition is published, along with a form to purchase signed copies from the author, please eMail Carol. If you wish to receive a postcard notice as well, please add your mailing address to your eMail.
Photo: Jim McMillan
CAROL STANGLER Author & Environmental Artist
Environmental Artist Carol Stangler has been experimenting with bamboo since 1988. Recognizing bamboo as a "new" material for Western artists and craftpersons, she has worked to bring its artistic and sustainable value to the mainstream public. Since the publication of her book, The Craft and Art of Bamboo, Stangler has taught bamboo workshops throughout the county. She lives and maintains a studio in Asheville, North Carolina.


"Bamboo's exotic physical properties delight and challenge me. Each cylindrical culm has its own graceful curve, its unique set of parallel rings. In a square world, round sings."
-Carol Stangler
Carol Stangler, 54 Westover Drive, Asheville, NC, 28801-1634: 828-254-0023: cstangler@aol.com
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