It involves transforming gourds into colorful containers, which are not only functional but also beautiful. This art form is ...

Following a design showing on her cellphone, Ruan Xiyue, 35, quickly sketched a manned spacecraft on a gourd, completing the first step of gourd sculpture, an intangible cultural heritage of Northwest ...

DELAWARE — The Ohio Gourd Society’s annual Gourd Show returns to the Delaware County Fairgrounds the first weekend in October. The event, which runs Oct. 3-5, marks 62 years of unique gourd art, ...

Before copper and ceramics, people relied on natural containers – such as gourds – to carry water and food. The old- est preserved examples of gourds come from Mexico and Peru. Choctow and Chickasaw ...

There are so many things that can be done with dried gourds! It’s an art category all its own. Wearable art — pins, combs, pendants and bracelets — all can be easily made from hard-shelled gourds.

Lisa Craig looks at gourds the way sculptors view clay and carvers view stone. “When you pick up a gourd it speaks to you,” she said. “It tells you what it wants to be.” Ever since Craig went to a ...

In the farmyard of Chaohu Village, Dawukou District, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, several plump cyan gourds with exquisite gourd crafts hank on the vines. They are owned by Tao Ruizhen. She is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shaped like an oversized apple, these hard-shelled gourds (Lagenaria siceraria) grow six to eight inches tall and four to six ...

Gourds don't come in only one shape, as you'll see when you come to a gourd exhibition in Shanghai - you will be amazed by so many different shaped gourds. A total of more than 200 kinds of gourds, ...

In an annual rite of autumn, anyone can carve a pumpkin. But gourds? That requires patience and a passion that goes far beyond Halloween. Ask any serious “gourder.” This curious vine has wrapped ...

Earl Fincher loved birds – so much so that he wanted to make birdhouses for his feathered friends. But back in the day, the young man couldn’t afford lumber, so he figured out a way to grow his own ...