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Author : Ginger Summit
Publisher : Lark Books
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1579901522
Contains twenty easy projects using gourds to create candleholders, a birdhouse, drinking cups, bracelets, and bowls.
Author : Mickey Baskett
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1402727844
New in Paper With a simple gourd, it's easy to make an astonishing variety of bowls, boxes, baskets, pitchers, and dippers, as well as musical instruments and toys. Choose from the many inviting shapes, from the kettle to the canteen, the bushel basket to the snake. Carve, burn, wax, varnish, and color them with paints, dyes, oils, and markers to work their smooth, three-dimensional surfaces. Basic, time-tested techniques for making practical works of art show you how to grow, dry, and clean them, or where to buy gourds readymade for projects such as a child's elephant pull toy, planters, lamps, and birdhouses. "[A] collection of uncomplicated, step-by-step projects for...large gourds, which are fun to work with and readily available...a good selection."--Library Journal
Author : Marilynn Host
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0806944234
Step-by-step instructions explain how to complete a variety of projects using gourds of all shapes and sizes.
Author : Ginger Summit,Jim Widess
Publisher : Lark Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1887374558
22 projects; 55 decorative techniques; 300 inspirational designs.
Author : Jim Widess,Ginger Summit
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1402704429
Jim Widess and Ginger Summit, the best-selling authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Craft and Making Gourd Instruments, have done it again: they’ve produced another winner to delight the many crafters who work with gourds. Large, lavish, and astonishingly comprehensive, this breathtaking volume introduces every tool and every technique associated with gourd carving, offers fabulous projects that advance in difficulty, and presents a gallery of works designed to inspire. See how to choose and prepare a gourd, impress the surface with a design, and work with green gourds. The magnificent methods of decorative carving covered include fretwork, engraving, chip carving, carving with gouges, relief carving, inlay, and deep relief or sculptural carving. Throughout, color photographs of exquisite carved gourds present crafts styles from countries around the world. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.
Author : David Macfarlane
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Carving (Decorative arts)
ISBN : 9781402753688
Provides examples from twenty artists along with information on their tools, methods, and influences.
Author : Marianne Barnes
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0764346148
In gourd art, there is a vast array of material that can be used when carving and decorating a gourd. When it comes to doing the rim, the options are just as varied. The best rims are those that complement the gourd's overall design. The rim "completes" the gourd--it makes the gourd look finished. Through more than 200 color images and tutorials from contributing artists, learn how to finish the rims of gourd bowls using chip stone, tubular beading, paper, coiling, leather, wire, clay, pine needle, and flowers. The rims illustrated range from the very simple to the extremely elaborate. A gallery of completed works will inspire your own creative ideas. This book is perfect for gourd artists of all skill levels.
Author : Colin Nissan
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781797214757
A passionate and profane love letter to fall, the best fucking season of the year. Do you get excited at the first brisk breeze of the year? Are you overcome with delight when you see piles of red leaves? Do you lose your fucking mind at a pumpkin patch? At last, the epically funny internet sensation It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers is now a visual tour-de-force, teeming with a cornucopia of perfectly paired photos and seasonal enchantments to make it really fucking sing. Whiffy candles, wicker baskets, motherfucking gourd after gourd, and people going insane they love fall so much? Check! Also included: the equally lifechanging meditation It's Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers, because all good things must end. Give it to everyone you love, or put it on your fucking coffee table next to a pile of shellacked vegetables to really tie the room together. Perfect for: For anyone who fucking loves fall, and fans of McSweeney's, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Deep Thoughts, the Onion, and the New Yorker.
Author : Sue Waters
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0764313126
Discover the wonderful art of gourd carving and produce gourd-geous results in a minimal time! Gourds grow in all shapes and sizes, and no two are alike. This book shows you how to prepare a gourd for decoration, and then lets your creativity soar! Step-by-step photos and text demonstrate several techniques you could use, including carving, woodburning, painting, staining, stenciling, and pine needle weaving. The projects covered here include vessels, a hanging potpourri, and an adorable Santa Claus. Patterns are included to get you started, and a color photo gallery displays finished projects.
Author : Charles B. Heiser
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780806173214
Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for identifying species. The first part of the book deals with tree gourds, widely used as containers and for decoration; the Cucurbita gourds, including the buffalo gourd, the Turk's turban, the silver-seed gourd, and the Malabar gourd, all utilized as food, and the beautiful ornamental gourds; the loofah gourds, popular as cosmetic sponges; minor gourds, such as the snake, wax, bitter, teasel, and hedgehog, sometimes used as food or medicine; and gourds mentioned in the Bible. The second part takes up the bottle gourd, which has been used for thousands of years. Even today this gourd is almost indispensable in many parts of the tropics, where species are used to make containers, musical instruments, and clothing, as food and medicine, and in art. The book concludes with a discussion of the gourd in folklore and myth and an appendix on growing, hybridizing, and preserving gourds for decoration. Delightfully written for general readers, this book will also appeal to botanists, anthropologists, horticulturists, and everyone interested in plants or gardening.
Author : Catherine Devine
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 076433011X
Coiling is a basketry technique used as decoration in gourd art. Step-by-step coiling techniques, as well as pattern designs, help gourd enthusiasts use coiled waxed linen and colored thread to enhance their work. 196 color photos show how to trim a gourd bowl or vase and use the coiled threads to add color to your favorite gourds. A special chart will help crafters design their own coiling patterns. Beginners and advanced workers with gourds will be inspired by this book.
Author : Angela Mohr
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0764328301
What did Americas first inhabitants use for cooking and eating? What did the stranded characters of television's Gilligan's Island use to prepare and eat food? \nTaking her cue from these questions, author Angela Mohr demonstrates how to create authentic vessels by using gourds. A watering can, cooking utensils, and bowls are created in this step-by-step instruction book, as Mohr brings fun and authenticy to her gourds. \nHistorical re-enactors will find inspiration fhere for their authentic life-style performances and drama students, the rights tools to pursue their craft.
Author : Jim Widess
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1402745028
A guide to gourd pyrography--using heat to create works of gourd art--that discusses gourd prep and work basics, provides step-by-step instructions for several designs and techniques, and presents secrets from fifty artists.
Author : Angela Mohr
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0764328298
In this new gourd book, author Angela Mohr demonstrates how to select and prepare gourds from the garden and demonstrates basic techniques for cleaning, shaping, and fixing gourds, which then can be decorated for everyday use, such as bowls and vases.\nThis do-it-yourself how-to is perfect for any beginning gourd artisan to learn the finer points of a gourd, fix their common flaws and put the gourds to good use as accessories around the house.
Author : Lora Susan Irish
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486813493
Beautifully illustrated guide by a master woodcrafter presents 12 projects, with mix-and-match suggestions for creating dozens of spoons and other implements. Perfect for beginners, the book features clear, detailed directions.
