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    Root carving is a traditional Chinese art form. It consists of carving and polishing tree roots into various artistic creations. Carving of roots has been...
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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...
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    Wood carving 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...
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    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...
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    itself to refined moldings framing finely detailed pictorial panels with carving in very low relief (bas-relief), usually of allegorical subjects, or with...
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    nature of their root systems. Most aspens grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling, and spread by means of root suckers; new stems...
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  • disciplines. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z applied carving A background which is worked separately and then applied, rather than being...
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    refer either to the art of carving shapes out of raw wood using a knife or a time-occupying, non-artistic (contrast wood carving for artistic process) process...
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    orange with details and a harness in white, green, yellow and blue. The carving of Dala horses as a livelihood is thought to have started in the village...
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    Adzes have been used since the Stone Age. They are used for smoothing or carving wood in hand woodworking, and as a hoe for agriculture and horticulture...
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