Gourd baskets ideas

This 16" egg-shaped and decorated bowl (the interior is crackle painted in white and egg-yolk yellow) has 3 decorated mini egg-shaped gourds alreay in it.

Gourd and reed basket

Gourds are always popular items for fall centerpieces but why stick with their traditional look? Add a special flair to your table this season by making glue-decorated gourds. (DIY via @everydaydishes)

Lora S Irish teaches the easy steps to creating a raffia or round reed braided rim edging for your next gourd art project.

Gourd Basket : Handcrafted Beauty

I'm just about done with the scarf project, and so I'm moving on to my next requested work: a decorated gourd. My first step was to head out to the stash in my shed, and pick out a dried gourd. I brought it inside a couple of days ago, to give it time to adjust from the baking desert heat out in the shed to the cool and somewhat more humid air in the house. A raw gourd has a waxy coating on the outside of it, which needs to be removed so the dye can get to the rind of the gourd. I scrub the…

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Handmade from UK grown gourds