Materials
Properties, origins, processing, and appropriate applications.
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Understand materials, techniques, and crafts.
An editorial place for origins, properties, working methods, and the people who turn knowledge into work.
Materials
Limewood
Limewood is a pale hardwood with a generally fine and even structure. Its workability and restrained growth-ring contrast have made it an important material for sculpture, relief and detailed carving over many centuries.
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Wood
Wood is the lignified tissue grown by trees and shrubs. As a material, it combines structural capacity, workability and a visible biological structure that varies with species, growth and drying.
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Crafts
Wood carving
Wood carving is a subtractive cutting process: edged tools remove material from a piece of wood until a sculptural or ornamental form emerges. It includes free-standing sculpture, reliefs, architectural ornament, functional objects and many distinct regional traditions.
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Working methods, tools, and the knowledge behind a good result.
Crafts
Professions, histories, and current practice in workshops and ateliers.