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Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878: Fine Arts, W. W. Story. Education, J. L. Chamberlain. Political Education, ... Wood-Carving, J. T. Norton. Textile Fabrics, by Edward Henry Knight, 2010-03-09 A Complete Guide to Woodcarving - How to Carve Wood by Jonathon Roberts, 2009-11-26 Power Tool Woodcarving by Alan Bridgewater, Gill Bridgewater, 1994-06-30 Snowmen Are Cool Woodcarving Winter Creations by Paul Bolinger, Camille Bolinger, 1999-11 Practical Woodcarving: Elementary and Advanced by Eleanor Rowe, 2005-05-18 Practical Woodcarving and Gilding by William Wheeler, Charles H. Hayward, 1983-09-22 The Carver's Handbook: Woodcarving the Wonders of Nature (v. 1) by David E. Pergrin, 1984-09 The Carvers' Handbook: Woodcarving Wild Animals (Carver's Handbook) (v. 3) by David E. Pergrin, 1985-07 Woodcarving, by William Wheeler, 1972 Capturing Personality in Woodcarving (Home craftsman series) by E. J. Tangerman, 1981-09 Woodcarving: Designs, Materials, Techniques (A Reinhold Craft Paperback) by Walter Sack, 1973-04 Carving Out a Future: Forests, Livelihoods and the International Woodcarving Trade (People and Plants Conservation) by Anthony Cunningham, Bruce Campbell, et all 2005-09 Woodcarving for beginners (J) by Kenneth R Scott, 1989 Woodcarving for Beginners by Art McKellips, 1977-12-01

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101. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Wood-Carving
     Discusses the branch of wood-carving dealing with artistic objects, belonging either to plastic (as statues, crucifixes, and similar carvings), or to industrial art (as arabesques and rosettes), and which serve mainly for the ornamentation of cabinet work.  
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     Extractions: Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... W > Wood-Carving In general, the production from wood of objects of trade or art by means of sharp instruments, as a knife, chisel, file, or drill. Here only that branch of wood-carving is dealt with which produces artistic objects, belonging either to plastic (as statues crucifixes , and similar carvings), or to industrial art (as arabesques and rosettes), and which serve mainly for the ornamentation of cabinet work. Carvings of the first class belong specifically to wood-sculpture; those of the second class to wood-carving proper; both are treated in this article. It is indeed not easy to maintain a sharp distinction between these two classes in a sketch dealing with the historical development of wood-carving, particularly as they were frequently combined in the production of artistic objects. Moreover, the lack of objects of industrial art among the remains of the first thousand years makes it necessary, in the following summary, to include also examples of wood-sculpture. Objects carved from wood were frequently used for religious purposes in antiquity, especially by the

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