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It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers

Author : Colin Nissan

Publisher : Chronicle Books

Page : 68 pages

File Size : 23,77 MB

Release : 2021-09-28

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1797214756

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Book Description

A passionate and profane love letter to fall, the best fucking season of the year. Do you get excited at the first brisk breeze of the year? Are you overcome with delight when you see piles of red leaves? Do you lose your fucking mind at a pumpkin patch? At last, the epically funny internet sensation It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers is now a visual tour-de-force, teeming with a cornucopia of perfectly paired photos and seasonal enchantments to make it really fucking sing. Whiffy candles, wicker baskets, motherfucking gourd after gourd, and people going insane they love fall so much? Check! Also included: the equally lifechanging meditation It's Rotting Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers, because all good things must end. Give it to everyone you love, or put it on your fucking coffee table next to a pile of shellacked vegetables to really tie the room together. Perfect for: For anyone who fucking loves fall, and fans of McSweeney's, Go the Fuck to Sleep, Deep Thoughts, the Onion, and the New Yorker.



The Decorated Gourd

Author : Dyan Mai Peterson

Publisher : Lark Books (NC)

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 24,70 MB

Release : 2003-08

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781579905118

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Book Description

From carving, dyeing, and burning to watercolor effects and antique shading, a professional artist shares her gourd crafting secrets, offering 35 projects, ranging from the practical to the ornamental, many of them with templates.



Decorating Gourds

Author : Sue Waters

Publisher : Schiffer Craft

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 47,96 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9780764313127

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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.



Complete Book of Gourd Carving

Author : Jim Widess

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 16,13 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781402704420

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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.



Gourd Pyrography

Author : Jim Widess

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company

Page : 150 pages

File Size : 10,96 MB

Release : 2007-03

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9781402745027

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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.



Gourd Art

Author : David Macfarlane

Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Page : 148 pages

File Size : 42,47 MB

Release : 2008-03

Category : Carving (Decorative arts)

ISBN : 1402753683

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Book Description

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



Coiled Designs for Gourd Art

Author : Catherine Devine

Publisher : Schiffer Craft

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 23,95 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9780764330117

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Book Description

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.



Gourd Art Basics

Author : Angela Mohr

Publisher : Schiffer Craft

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 43,61 MB

Release : 2007-11

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9780764328299

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Book Description

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.



Creative Rims for Gourd Art

Author : Marianne Barnes

Publisher : Schiffer Craft

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 29,94 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9780764346149

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Book Description

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.



Historic Gourd Craft

Author : Angela Mohr

Publisher : Schiffer Craft

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 10,44 MB

Release : 2007-12

Category : Crafts & Hobbies

ISBN : 9780764328305

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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.