Complete Book of Gourd Carving - Hardcover

Widess, Jim; Summit, Ginger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402704429 ISBN 13: 9781402704420

Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1402704429
• ISBN 13: 9781402704420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192