Wood carving
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Wood carving, also spelt woodcarving, is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool 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 woo
Woodcarver at work
Wood sculpture made by Alexander Grabovetskiy
A selection of woodcarving hand tools: 3 fishtail gouges, a v-parting tool, 4 straight gouges, 3 spoon gouges, and a carver's mallet
Wood carving with a chainsaw
History of wood carving
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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
Wood carving
…refer to the finished product, from individual sculptures to hand-worked mouldings composing part of a tracery. The making of sculpture in wood has been extremely widely practised, but does not survive undamaged as well as the other main materials like stone and bronze, as it is vulnerable to decay, insect damage, and fire…
A Chinese wooden Bodhisattva, Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Shanghai Museum.
Detail from the carved portal, of St Sabina on the Aventine Hill, dating back from the 5th century
Gothic statue in carved wood
Choir stalls in the Ulm Münster by Jörg Syrlin t.E. (ca. 1470)