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A low relief carving of a Viking ship Carving tools and a mallet. In wood carving relief carving is a type in which figures or patterns are carved in a flat panel of wood; the same term is also used for carving in stone, ivory carving and various other materials. The figures project only slightly from the background rather than standing freely.
Linenfold (or linen fold) is a simple style of relief carving used to decorate wood panelling with a design "imitating window tracery", [1] "imitating folded linen" [2] or "stiffly imitating folded material". [3] Originally from Flanders, the style became widespread across Northern Europe in the 14th to 16th centuries.
Fretwork is an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background, or cut out with a fretsaw, coping saw, jigsaw or scroll saw. Most fretwork patterns are geometric in design. The materials most commonly used are wood and metal. [1] Fretwork is used to adorn furniture and musical instruments.
The six sculptured figure panels are carved in very low relief and the four foliage panels are quite Oriental in character, intricate and fine both in detail and furnish. In the Cairo Museum, there is much work treated, after the familiar Arab style, while other designs are quite Byzantine in character. The figure work is not of a very high order.
The figures are carved in large flat planes, created primarily using a carving knife. Tool marks are left in the carving and very little (if any) rounding or sanding is done. Emil Janel , a Swedish-born American artist, was considered by many to be one of the best of this genre.
Many stelae were sculpted in low relief, [3] although plain monuments are found throughout the Maya region. [4] The sculpting of these monuments spread throughout the Maya area during the Classic Period (250–900 AD), [ 2 ] and these pairings of sculpted stelae and circular altars are considered a hallmark of Classic Maya civilization. [ 5 ]
The carving is usually quite shallow, with just enough depth in the niches to position the figures, which can be either free-standing or carved into the main block high relief. [84] Many of the more elaborate and detailed carvings, including landscape elements, were created separately and then inserted; in these instances the tight space did ...
Detailing of an olifant with bas relief carvings of various animals. While the shape of olifants remains largely similar, these instruments feature multiple styles of carving. Some include bas-relief carvings with largely European subject matter, while others are carved in high-relief f that is a more traditionally African style. [2]