A guide to decorating gourds with 22 projects and 55 techniques to choose from, including staining, decoupage, carving, painting, and woodburning. This is also a gallery of 300 decorated gourds by contemporary artists, and instructions on how to grow and prepare gourds.
Identify popular gourd shapes Plan and cultivate your garden Grow, train, and harvest a bountiful crop Control pests and disease with natural remedies Prepare your gourds for use - in recipes and art projects.
"Actual instructions on gourd transformations into spike fiddles, water drums, and even xylophones are included."--"Booklist." "Highly recommended for general crafts as well as ethnomusicology collections."--"Library Journal." "Get this book!"--"Whole Earth Catalog."
A guide to using the Cucurbita and Lagenaria siceraria (a sort of hard shelled pumpkin), for a range of decorative uses in the home and in the garden. No special tools or equipment are needed, standard craft materials such as a scalpel, paints, leather dyes, shoe polish, varnish and stains. The projects include cups and bowls, bracelets, carved ...
Large, lavish, and astonishingly comprehensive. 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.
Dolls that dance, dolls that protect, dolls that charm: these beautiful gourd dolls do that and more. Ginger Summit and Jim Widess-- authors of "The Complete Book of Gourd Crafting" and "Making Gourd Musical Instruments"-- pay tribute to an ancient craft in a volume both inspirational and instructional. It's packed with images of dolls from ...
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