carving

The balusters were a superb piece of workmanship, and the wall all the way up was oak-panelled, with carving that would have done credit to a palace.

An ancient Hawaiian war-club or spear-paddle, in its full multiplicity and elaboration of carving, is as great a trophy of human perseverance as a Latin lexicon.

One can distinguish on its ruins three sorts of lesions, all three of which cut into it at different depths; first, time, which has insensibly notched its surface here and there, and gnawed it everywhere; next, political and religious revolution, which, blind and wrathful by nature, have flung themselves tumultuously upon it, torn its rich garment of carving and sculpture, burst its rose windows, broken its necklace of arabesques and tiny figures, torn out its statues, sometimes because of their mitres, sometimes because of their crowns; lastly, fashions, even more grotesque and foolish, which, since the anarchical and splendid deviations of the Renaissance, have followed each other in the necessary decadence of architecture.

The young men and warriors produced their spears, paddles, canoe-gear, battle-clubs, and war-conchs, and occupied themselves in carving, all sorts of figures upon them with pointed bits of shell or flint, and adorning them, especially the war-conchs, with tassels of braided bark and tufts of human hair.

The German won the coveted Claymore Trophy for the second year running at the Scottish Open Chainsaw Carving Competition - popularly known as Carve Carrbridge.

A major project celebrating Dumfries' rich stone carving heritage has been underway in the town.

As soon as someone thinks about Taxila, images of master craftsmen carving Buddha statues on black stone come to mind.

Irfan Butt, a Kashmiri artisan whose works on wood carving has great appeal for the customers not only within Pakistan but also from abroad, told he is carrying forward the art of his ancestors whose work was appreciated even by the kings.

The second rock carving is located in front of Vishnu and depicts an eight-handed Ganesha (the Hindu God with an elephant like head) surrounded by three columns.

The Lopez brothers, Michael and Mark, of the Maestro Cortador Filipino (MCF), have developed the essential skills of carving ham, which they acquired through training, experience and hard work as immigrants in Spain, and eventually distinguishing themselves as maestros cortadores, or ham carvers, that had impressed even the Spaniards with their wizardry.