Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts

Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts

Author: Mickey Baskett

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005-08

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9781402727849

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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


Gourd Art Basics

Gourd Art Basics

Author: Angela Mohr

Publisher: Schiffer Craft

Published: 2007-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764328299

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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.


Complete Book of Gourd Carving

Complete Book of Gourd Carving

Author: Jim Widess

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781402704420

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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.


Making Gourd Musical Instruments

Making Gourd Musical Instruments

Author: Ginger Summit

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company

Published: 2007-03

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9781402745034

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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.


Easy Pumpkin Carving

Easy Pumpkin Carving

Author: Colleen Dorsey

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 1607654946

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• Fun guide to the classic Fall craft. • Priced to move at $4.99. • Eye-catching 12-unit clip strip display. • Covers both traditional and modern pumpkin carving techniques. • Ready-to-use pumpkin carving patterns. • Includes Dremel tool carving and etching methods.


Creating Bottles with Gourds and Fiber

Creating Bottles with Gourds and Fiber

Author: Jim Widess

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Limited

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764338663

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Presents step-by-step instructions and color photographs for fiber work projects of basket weaves and cords for gourds.


Garden Made

Garden Made

Author: Stephanie Rose

Publisher: Shambhala Publications

Published: 2015-10-27

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1611801745

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Winner of the 2016 IPPY Award Gold Medal for Home & Garden 40 down-to-earth ideas for inspired garden crafts, including containers, handmade gifts, outdoor lighting, holiday decorations, and more. Blending the pleasures of gardening with the joys of crafting, Garden Made showcases over forty projects to adorn your garden, beautify your home, or give as gifts. Following the natural cycle of the garden in all its seasons—yes, even winter!—these garden-inspired projects, made by hand and finished with finesse, are the perfect way to express your love of the garden in fresh ways. With full step-by-step instructions, as well as gardening tips and advice, Garden Made will inspire seasoned and novice gardeners, and everyone in between.


Antler Art for Baskets and Gourds

Antler Art for Baskets and Gourds

Author: Betsey Sloan

Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9780764336157

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Enhance your gourd vessel or basket with antlers. Containing 169 color images and step-by-step instructions, learn how to drill, frame, and attach antlers to a traditional weave basket, gourd bowl, floor vases, and even masks. Twenty projects both baskets and gourds are featured for the beginner and advanced crafter. A gallery provides inspiration for your own creations.


How to Weave Hawaiian Coconut Palm Fronds

How to Weave Hawaiian Coconut Palm Fronds

Author: Jim Widess

Publisher: Mutual Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781566477970

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"A guide to learn how to weave with coconut fronds; instructions for making simple objects such as fish, bird, baskets, and more included"--Provided by publisher.