The complete book of gourd craft : 22 projects, 55 decorative techniques, 300 inspirational designs / Ginger Summit and Jim Widess.

Title:

Author:

Summit, Ginger.

Additional Author(s):

Widess, Jim.

ISBN:

0937274992

Publication Info:

Asheville, N.C. : Lark Books, c1996.

Description:

144 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.

Subject(s):

Gourd craft.

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Summary

Reveals the craft of embellishing gourds, using contemporary and traditional designs. The author provides 25 projects to make, using the 55 decorative techniques described.

Author Notes

Ginger\Summit Ginger Summit is a founding member and vice president of the California Gourd Society and a spokesperson who travels to libraries and convention to promote gourds as art forms.

Summit has written Gourds in Your Garden: A Guidebook for the Home Gardner and The Complete Book of Gourd Craft: 22 Projects, 55 Decorative Techniques, 300 Inspirational Designs.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Library Journal Review

Gourds have been used for centuries as containers and decorative objects. Hardshell gourds with brightly painted faces and figures recently have become popular items at craft sales. This book covers growing, harvesting, and curing as well as crafting and finishing. Gourd crafters must work with the natural shape of the gourd, which cannot be reshaped once it has dried, but it can be cut, incised, painted, and embellished. The projects, presented by experienced gourd crafters, are artistic and imaginative and cover all techniques of dealing with gourds. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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