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Author: Jim Widess Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402704420 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
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: Jim Widess Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. ISBN: 9781402704420 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
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: Jim Widess Publisher: ISBN: 9781565238251 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
All decorative carving methods are presented in detail, including fretwork, engraving, chip carving, gouge work, relief carving, inlay, and sculptural carving. The authors introduce every tool and technique you'll ever need and walk you through a series of projects that further illuminate the craft.
Author: Jim Widess Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company ISBN: 9781402745027 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
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: Sue Waters Publisher: Schiffer Craft ISBN: 9780764313127 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
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: Susan Nonn Publisher: Schiffer Craft ISBN: 9780764342967 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
For gourd artists looking to improve their skills with the mini jigsaw with 221 colored images and step-by-step instructions for ten projects.
Author: Ginger Summit Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company ISBN: 9781402745034 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 150
Book Description
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.
Author: Marilyn Rehm Publisher: Schiffer Craft ISBN: 9780764332890 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"This step-by-step guide, with 229 color photographs, demonstrate the many ways to design your gourd with only the simplest of tools -- no electric cords, no noise, no dust. 10 Projects feature bowls, birdhouses, and ornaments are included and a gallery of 15 color photographs provides ideas for your own creations"--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Jim Widess
Author: Jim Widess
Author: Jim Widess
Author: Ginger Summit
Author: Jim Widess
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Author: Sue Waters
Author: Susan Nonn
Author: Ginger Summit
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