Chip-Carving Gourds

Chip-Carving Gourds
Author: Marilyn Rehm
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: 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.

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

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.

A Guide to Chip-Carving Gourds

A Guide to Chip-Carving Gourds
Author: Marilyn Rehm
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: 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.

The Complete Book of Gourd Craft

The Complete Book of Gourd Craft
Author: Ginger Summit
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1998-12
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781887374552

22 projects; 55 decorative techniques; 300 inspirational designs.

Gourd Pyrography

Gourd Pyrography
Author: Jim Widess
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2007-03
Genre: 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.

Cut-Out Gourd Techniques

Cut-Out Gourd Techniques
Author: Susan Nonn
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: 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.

Chip Carving Patterns

Chip Carving Patterns
Author: Wayne Barton
Publisher: Sterling
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1990
Genre: 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.

Gourd Art Basics

Gourd Art Basics
Author: Angela Mohr
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-11
Genre: 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.

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

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.

Creative Rims for Gourd Art

Creative Rims for Gourd Art
Author: Marianne Barnes
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: 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.