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Angelico Jimenez, son of Manuel, in the family workshop. Jiménez Ramírez is credited with creating the Oaxacan version of “alebrijes.” [2] [4] The original craft was created and promoted by the Linares family in Mexico City, making fantastic creatures of “cartonería” (a hard paper mache) and painting them in bright colors. [2]
Robert "Mouseman" Thompson (7 May 1876 – 8 December 1955), also known as ' Mousey ' Thompson, [1] was a British furniture maker. He was born and lived in Kilburn, Yorkshire, England, where he set up a business manufacturing oak furniture, which featured a carved mouse on almost every piece.
Wood-carving examples of the first eleven centuries of CE are rare due to the fact that woods do decay easily in 1,000 years. The carved panels of the main doors of St Sabina on the Aventine Hill, Rome, are very interesting specimens of early Christian relief sculpture in wood, dating, as the dresses show, from the 5th century. The doors are ...
Wood carving (or woodcarving) is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object.
Three old handsaws: A handsaw, according to Cambridge University, "a saw that is operated by hand rather than using electricity or a motor." [21] Files & Rasps Top two are files. The bottom (orange-handled) tool is a rasp. Both files and rasps are used to grind down wood material either to make the surface flat, rounded, concaved, or many other ...
Alois Lang (1872–1954) was a Master Woodcarver at the American Seating Company, and one of the artists responsible for bringing the medieval art of ecclesiastical carving to life in the United States. Lang was born in Oberammergau in Bavaria, a town known for its excellence in wood carving. He was apprenticed to his cousin Andreas Lang around ...
Carving names and initials into trees is a common practice among lovers; the carvings can last for decades, as a symbol of the permanence of the couple's love. This practice would appear to date back up to the classical era , with Callimachus writing in his Aetia , "But graven on your bark may ye bear such writing as shall declare 'Cydippe ...
Seri ironwood carving. Mexican ironwood carving is a Mexican tradition of carving the wood of the Olneya tesota tree, a Sonora Desert tree commonly called ironwood (palo fierro in Spanish). Olneya tesota is a slow growing important shade tree in northwest Mexico and the southwest U.S. The wood it produces is very dense and sinks in water.