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2. Wood carving - Wikipedia

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   Woodcarver at work Wood sculpture made by Alexander Grabovetskiy. 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.

3. History of wood carving - Wikipedia

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   A Chinese wooden Bodhisattva, Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Shanghai Museum. Wood carving is one of the oldest arts of humankind. Wooden spears from the Middle Paleolithic, such as the Clacton Spear, reveal how humans have engaged in utilitarian woodwork for millennia. However, given the relatively rapid rate at which wood decays in most ...

4. Woodturning - Wikipedia

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   When it is necessary to sand the piece, they do so on the lathe, using abrasives held by a hand, in an inertial sander that revolves with the wood's rotation, or with power tools—drills or right-angle drills. The lathe also becomes a useful holding device for carving, burning, texturing, coloring, and finishing the form.

5. Gothic boxwood miniature - Wikipedia

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   Height: 5.7 cm (2.2 in). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. [7] Boxwood is a dense hardwood with fine grain, resistant to splitting and chipping, making it ideal for wood carving. [8] [9] In the 16th century, wooden blocks used for woodblock printing were usually made of boxwood.

6. Chinese puzzle ball - Wikipedia

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   A puzzle ball on display at the Overseas Museum, Bremen. A Chinese puzzle ball, sometimes known as a devil's work ball (Chinese: 鬼工球; pinyin: guǐ gōng qiú) or the Concentric Ball (Chinese: 同心球; pinyin: tóng xīn qiú), is a Chinese-made artifact that consists of a number of intricately carved concentric hollow spheres carved from a single solid block that fit within one another ...

7. Scandinavian flat-plane style of woodcarving - Wikipedia

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   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.