Great Book of Woodburning is a comprehensive guide to Pyrography that is perfect for beginners and experts alike. Providing details on the four essential pyrography ingredients - temperature, speed of stroke, texture patterns and layering - this reference also includes chapters on equipment, surface selection and preparation and finishing techniques.Pyrography (or woodburning) is 'the art of burning a design or pattern into a natural surface', such as gourds, wood, leather, or cotton rag watercolour paper 'using heated one-temperature or variable- temperature woodburning tools or a fine flame'.Teaching the way in which the eye comprehends visual tones and translating this knowledge into light and dark values with woodburning tools, this text for all skill levels also provides 30 traceable line patterns that differ in skill and ability.

About the Author
Lora S. Irish is an internationally recognised artist and author, whose acclaimed books include Big Book of Carving Patterns and Great Book of Tattoo Designs. Together with her husband Michael, she created wwww.carvingpatterns.com, an online studio focusing on web tutorials, projects and patterns created exclusively by Lora for crafters and artisans. It offers more than 1,500 patterns in various subject categories.


Book Information
ISBN 9781565232877
Author Lora S. Irish
Format Paperback
Page Count 200
Imprint Fox Chapel Publishing
Publisher Fox Chapel Publishing
Weight(grams) 762g
Dimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 11mm