Author : Marilyn Rehm
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780764332890
"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
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781402704420
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
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2007-03
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781402745027
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 : Ginger Summit
Publisher : Lark Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781887374552
22 projects; 55 decorative techniques; 300 inspirational designs.
Author : Wayne Barton
Publisher : Sterling
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Wood-carving
ISBN : 9780806957821
Chip carving is the simplest, quickest, most portable form of woodworking there is. Over 100 patterns to make drawer fronts, chair backs, and clockfaces, and mix and match these dozens of designs in hundreds of combinations. "The largest selection of patterns in any book. Sure to delight all who do chip carving."--Chip Chats.
Author : Marilyn Rehm
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780764332104
Love working with gourds, but hate all the dust? This new book offers an alternative technique. Step-by-step instructions, along with 176 color photographs, show how to chip and chisel a gourd into a decorative piece for the house or outside. Best of all, only basic, simple tools are needed; no electric cords, no noise, no dust. Create a stunning array of bowls, birdhouses, and ornaments. A gallery of 16 color photographs provides ideas for your own creations. Chip-carving on Gourds is a gentle, relaxing handcraft that any beginner or seasoned gourd crafter can learn and enjoy.
Author : Susan Nonn
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,69 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780764342967
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 : Catherine Devine
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780764330117
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.
Author : Marianne Barnes
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780764346149
In gourd art, there is a vast array of material that can be used when carving and decorating a gourd. When it comes to doing the rim, the options are just as varied. The best rims are those that complement the gourd's overall design. The rim "completes" the gourd--it makes the gourd look finished. Through more than 200 color images and tutorials from contributing artists, learn how to finish the rims of gourd bowls using chip stone, tubular beading, paper, coiling, leather, wire, clay, pine needle, and flowers. The rims illustrated range from the very simple to the extremely elaborate. A gallery of completed works will inspire your own creative ideas. This book is perfect for gourd artists of all skill levels.
Author : Angela Mohr
Publisher : Schiffer Craft
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2007-11
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780764328299
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.
