Basket weaving is one of mankind’s earliest crafts and one that continue into today to provide a rewarding, fun, and useful item. Learn the basic steps to woven basketry with this 40 page pdf file by Lora S. Irish. All steps are included with detailed photos. Try this one project to open a whole new hobby!
Basket weaving is one of mankind’s earliest crafts and one that continue into today to provide a rewarding, fun, and useful item. Learn the basic steps to woven basketry with this 40 page pdf file by Lora S. Irish. All steps are included with detailed photos. Try this one project to open a whole new hobby!
Pages: Learn how to wood carve your own Ice Fishing Decoy, a free wood carving project by Lora S Irish. Folk art fish decoys can become much more than realistic wood carvings of minnows and fishing bait. This gallery of wood carvings by Lora Irish offers more samples of what you could do with your own whittled fish decoy.
E-Project: Learn folk art ice fishing decoy carving with this in-depth step-by-step project taught by Lora S. Irish. This sixty page e-book includes an introduction to the history of ice fishing decoys, the six basic carving cuts needed to create these fun fish, and two complete projects. Complete your decoy with the painting steps and by creating a simple wire hanger. 60 pages of instructions, patterns, and ideas included are 20 small decoys patterns with fin variations, 4 long minnow decoy patterns, and 21 large full-sized decoy patterns accompanied by full-colored photos of the carved samples. Comes in Adobe Reader .pdf format!
Classic straight-handled, hardwood wooden spoons are a fantastic theme for the wood carver. But there is so much more than you can do with that handle as chip carving, oven rack hooks, and relief carving.
Click on the images for a full-sized free spoon carving pattern.
Chip carving has become for the woodworker an art form complete in itself. This technique uses triangular shaped cuts that create intricate and intriguing designs dancing across the surface of the wood. Patterns for chip carving are defined by a few basic elements, as the triangle or free form line, yet by varying the size and position of these elements new patterns are created.
