1. How I got startedbooks at the library

2. My first attempt at Gourd Art
3. Buying Gourds vs Growing Gourds
www.welburngourdfarm.com
4. Undiscovered Treasures
5. Growing
6. My favorite Gourd Book and Artist
7. Inspiration
8. Inspiration
9. Inspiration
10. LagenariasicerariaHard Shelled Gourd
11. My favorite shapes
Canteen
Bottle
Kettle
12. The History of the Gourd
One of the oldest cultivated crops to have spanned the entire globe in prehistoric times.
Grown and used mostly by cultures in temperate and tropical zones
Today the gourd is still considered one of nature's greatest gifts to mankind.
Before there was plastic there were gourds
13. Thousands ofYears
Originally traced to African
Mentioned in the Bible
Found in Egyptian tombs.
An interesting ancient use of gourds
Gourd skins were used to replace missing parts of skulls back in the Neolithic times as part of primitive surgery.
14. Bird House
15. Native Americans
16. Early America
17. Hawaii
18. Mexico
Laquerware
19. What got me started on Gourd History
Yerba Mate Tea Gourd
20. South America
21. Africa
22. China
23. Japan
Sake Gourdby Yamaoka Tesshu (1836-1888)
When you drink sake,
You know, it feels in your heart
As if spring has come;
Even the clamor of money collectors
Sounds like the song of a nightingale.
24. Egypt
25. India & Turkey
Indian Sitar
Turkish Lamps
26. Musical Instruments
Giro Cuba
Berimbau Brazil
Banjo - Appalachia
Maracas Puerto Rico
Sitar - India
Shekere Africa
27. Current Styles
28. Current Styles
29. Current Styles
30. Animals
31. Current Styles
32. Current Styles
33. Tools & Techniques
34. Pyrography
35. Carving
36. Painting
37. Gourd Dolls
38. Artist that inspires me
Akira Blount
Myversion
http://www.akirastudios.com/
39. Kansas Gourd Artists
http://www.dolorespurdycorcoran.com/gourd.html
http://www.jennifersgourds.com/index.html
http://joysartworld.homestead.com/index.html
40. My Stylewww.gooseberrygourds.com
41. I never throw leftovers away
42. Project Library
Welcome to Project Library!
As everyone knows the library is the place to go when you are in need of information for homework, research papers, and experiments as well as the place to find information on how to build, fix, and maintain numerous things in your household or life. We know that you come to us for any number of endeavors and we have the circulation numbers to prove it! We often share our creations with each other here at the library, but we want to know what youve been working on. Share your projects with us and the library community by filling out the form below and well post them here in the Project Library column. Don't forget to include some pictures!
43. My Project Library
www.tscpl.org
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