Making Gourd Dolls and Spirit Figures

Name: Making Gourd Dolls and Spirit Figures
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ISBN: 9781402732201

ISBN-10: 1402732201

ISBN-13: 9781402732201

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ginger Summit, Jim Widess

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Dolls that dance, dolls that protect, dolls that charm: these beautiful gourd dolls do that and more. Ginger Summit and Jim Widess—authors ofThe Complete Book of Gourd CraftingandMaking Gourd Musical Instruments—pay tribute to an ancient craft in a volume both inspirational and instructional. It’s packed with images of dolls from different cultures and eras, filled with testimonials from the most creative artists working today, and brimming with advice and irresistible projects. Summit and Widess explain how to choose a gourd, mold one as it’s growing, clean it properly and safely, pyrograph and sculpt faces, create movable joints, and make such creatures as a simple, limbless Stump Doll;…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Publication date: 7/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

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.

Jim Widess and Ginger Summit are the best-selling authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Craft and Making Gourd Instruments. Jim has a zeal for visual instruction for crafts. Since 1980, he has authored and co-authored over a dozen craft books on subjects including gourd crafting, chair caning, basket weaving and various Hawaiian crafts.