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.
This practical manual helps you to master traditional cane, rush and splint patterns, guiding your through each step of the process. Line drawings demonstrate how to cane with wicker, rattan, rawhide or Danish cord, and tips are given for overcoming common problems. Also included are charts which cover the size of fibre you need, the standard ...
"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."
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 ...
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.
Painted with fire, pyrographed gourds have existed for years, but modern tools and solid-state woodburning systems have made fine detailing simpler than ever. "So inspiring that it will have you wishing you had sown seeds for gourds last spring...offers readers step-by-step instructions on how to create works of art."--"Cleveland Plain Dealer." ...
Offers 5 step-by-step projects. A Basics chapter explores the various tools and materials involved, while the projects themselves provide user-friendly instructions and several colour photographs to demonstrate key steps.
For centuries people have marveled over the beauty of plaited basketry; now readers can actually learn the skill and artistry of this craft in the comfort of their own homes. Scholar, artisan, and teacher Vladimir Yarish created all of the birch bark baskets for this book after scouring museums and archeological sites all around the world. This ...
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