Historic Gourd Craft
Title | Historic Gourd Craft PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Mohr |
Publisher | Schiffer Craft |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-12 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9780764328305 |
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.
Complete Book of Gourd Carving
Title | Complete Book of Gourd Carving PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Widess |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781402704420 |
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.
Decorating Gourds
Title | Decorating Gourds PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Waters |
Publisher | Schiffer Craft |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9780764313127 |
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.
Gourd Pyrography
Title | Gourd Pyrography PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Widess |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2007-03 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781402745027 |
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.
Making Gourd Musical Instruments
Title | Making Gourd Musical Instruments PDF eBook |
Author | Ginger Summit |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2007-03 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781402745034 |
Provides step-by-step instructions for making, decorating, and playing more than sixty string, wind, and percussion instruments made from gourds, along with numerous color photos and cultural information on the instruments' places of origin.
Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures
Title | Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures PDF eBook |
Author | Ginger Summit |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781402732201 |
"If you're an artist looking to explore a versatile medium or are interested in making dolls, look to nature's bounty. Learn a variety of classic techniques as you create projects. Comes with a gallery of inspiring work by talented artists."--adapted from back cover.
Gourd Crafts
Title | Gourd Crafts PDF eBook |
Author | Ginger Summit |
Publisher | Lark Books |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 9781579901523 |
Contains twenty easy projects using gourds to create candleholders, a birdhouse, drinking cups, bracelets, and bowls.