Gourd Art Basics PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Gourd Art Basics PDF full book. Access full book title Gourd Art Basics.

Gourd Art Basics

Gourd Art Basics
Author: Angela Mohr
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764328299
GET BOOK

Download Gourd Art Basics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

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.

Gourd Art

Gourd Art
Author: David Macfarlane
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Carving (Decorative arts)
ISBN: 1402753683
GET BOOK

Download Gourd Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Provides examples from twenty artists along with information on their tools, methods, and influences.

Gourd Pyrography

Gourd Pyrography
Author: Jim Widess
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2007-03
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402745027
GET BOOK

Download Gourd Pyrography Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

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.

Gourd Crafts

Gourd Crafts
Author: Ginger Summit
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2000
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579901523
GET BOOK

Download Gourd Crafts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Contains twenty easy projects using gourds to create candleholders, a birdhouse, drinking cups, bracelets, and bowls.

Historic Gourd Craft

Historic Gourd Craft
Author: Angela Mohr
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-12
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764328305
GET BOOK

Download Historic Gourd Craft Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

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.

Coiled Designs for Gourd Art

Coiled Designs for Gourd Art
Author: Catherine Devine
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764330117
GET BOOK

Download Coiled Designs for Gourd Art Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Coiling is a basketry technique used as decoration in gourd art. Step-by-step coiling techniques, as well as pattern designs, help gourd enthusiasts use coiled waxed linen and colored thread to enhance their work. 196 color photos show how to trim a gourd bowl or vase and use the coiled threads to add color to your favorite gourds. A special chart will help crafters design their own coiling patterns. Beginners and advanced workers with gourds will be inspired by this book.

Complete Book of Gourd Carving

Complete Book of Gourd Carving
Author: Jim Widess
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402704420
GET BOOK

Download Complete Book of Gourd Carving Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

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.

Gourd Fun for Everyone

Gourd Fun for Everyone
Author: Sammie Crawford
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780764331244
GET BOOK

Download Gourd Fun for Everyone Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Discover a world of enchantment and creative possibilities with Sammie Crawford, the Fairy Gourdmother.(TM) Her painting and decorating techniques, patterns, and practical instruction will have you creating masterpieces. Gourds are everywhere: in gardens, at the grocery or farmer's market, and online. Whether you create a Christmas character, a frog prince, a snowman, a mermaid, a lighthouse, or a bow-legged cowboy, you'll be smiling from start to finish. Eight step-by-step projects are shown to get you started, and there are lots of other examples to inspire your own ideas of what a gourd can be.

Gourds in Your Garden

Gourds in Your Garden
Author: Ginger Summit
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2001-06
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780806926995
GET BOOK

Download Gourds in Your Garden Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Whether you're a seasoned gardener enchanted with their lush vines and unusually shaped fruit or a crafter in search of the perfect gourd for a specific project, this easy-to-use primer takes the mystery out of growing gourds. Largely ignored by most gardening books, gourd plants require specific attention to produce healthy vines and satisfactory fruit. Learn how to: * 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. Lists of suppliers, a growing calendar, and space for notes on your own garden conditions make this the complete gourd sourcebook. A delight to read as well as a lasting reference, this long overdue guide to the adventures of growing one of Nature's greatest gifts is an essential addition to any gardener's library.

Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts

Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts
Author: Mickey Baskett
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2005-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781402727849
GET BOOK

Download Quick & Easy Gourd Crafts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

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