Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures – Hardcover – Read Description

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Making Gourd Dolls & Spirit Figures by Ginger Summit & Jim WidessDolls that dance, dolls that protect, dolls that charm: these beautiful gourd dolls do that and more. Ginger Summit and Jim Widess--authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Crafting and Making 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; beaded Zulu doll; endearing Hobgoblin; and stacked Mother and DaughterHardcover224 pages Book in Photo is the book you will receive -  Used/Very good - See Photos If only books in your cart I can change shipping to media rate! and adjust shipping cost prior to final capture of funds - please leave note in the comments if you want it to ship priority or ground vs media