PERU, Ind. -- Most people use gourds for fall decorations or crafting. Not Ron Luginbill. Give the 72-year-old Peru resident a gourd, and a few weeks later, he'll have turned it into an exquisitely ...

The gourds had been sawed in half, hollowed out, painted and left to dry in the sun outside Martin Espino’s temporary Manhattan Beach classroom. Inside, he helped his young students sand, stain and ...

Artists from throughout the state will gather and showcase their exquisite gourd art at the 9th Annual Gourd Art Festival in Knights Landing, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The festival, taking ...

JIM WIDESS at The Caning Shop in Berkeley insists that I take a gourd home. The author of several books on gourds and gourd crafts, Widess has some large wire bins out back full of tawny, bulbous ...

Latrobe Valley folk musician Penelope Swales was talking with a guitar maker about the difficulties in being paid for the time spent on the craft before the focus turned to a gourd she had bought from ...

Today, however, farmers of Udaynarayanpur, faced with adversities, have stopped growing the variety of bottle gourds that are used to make these instruments. “The gourd used in making tanpura, sitar ...