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Decorating gourds is everybody's favorite craft, as you'll see from the more than two dozen varied projects shown here. A handy guide tells you where to find, buy, and prepare gourds, and how to decorate them with leather dye, egg dye, paint, shoe polish, decoupage, airbrushing, waxed linen, dyed raffia, and beads. Select your projects: storage containers, ladles made from dipper gourds, bowls, musical instruments (such as thumb pianos, harps, and...
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"Gourds make the perfect three-dimensional canvas. With their varied sizes and shapes, they're nature's gift to the crafter, who can use a multitude of techniques to transform them into breathtaking pieces. Cut them, carve them, paint them, inlay them with stone, or embellish them with leather, fur, feathers, and botanicals: the magnificent possibilities are all featured in this splendid guide, which covers all the gourd crafting basics. Find out...
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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...
11) Gourd pyrography
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Etched and painted with fire and heat, pyrographed gourds have existed for years in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and lands beyond. Now, with modern tools and solid-state woodburning systems, doing fine detail work has become simpler than ever. Every amply illustrated page and project here teaches and inspires, as a parade of fine artists discuss their tools, reveal their techniques, and above all take you through each step of the process of producing...