Carving the Nativity with Helen Gibson

by Douglas Congdon-Martin and Alan Wolfe

In this wonderful new book an old tradition is shared with today's carvers. Helen Gibson, a new author at Schiffer Publishing, teaches woodcarving at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina. The patterns for the creche she carves have been part of the tradition of the school for so long that no one is quite sure of their origins. Carving them is a community effort, with different carvers having different specialties. Helen takes the reader...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887404383
• ISBN13: 9780887404382
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Craft
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.9"