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Ellie Cliftlands uses this centuries-old printmaking technique to create intriguing and intricate pieces of work. Taking inspiration from photographs, she engraves her detailed design into a block of ...
Figure 23 depicts an engraving awl, which can be used to drill holes in wood, and incising tools, which are used for relief carving. Because bone and ivory are not always preserved in sites, they are ...
Britain has invented numerous sports — tennis, cricket, tossing the caber — but can only claim to have come up with one art form: wood engraving. It is the perfect medium for the times we are living ...
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If you want an antidote to the computer screen, turn to wood engraving. ‘We’ve reached 1790, with dashes of the 1920s,’ discloses one practitioner, who would rather not be named for fear of incurring ...
ENGRAVING on wood, although an art not yet quite a century old, has had a changeful and eventful history. In saying not quite a century old, I must be understood as separating it from the woodcutting ...