Carving

An abrasive is a material, often a mineral, that is used to shape or finish a workpiece through rubbing which leads to part of the workpiece being worn away by friction. While finishing a material often means polishing it to gain a smooth, reflective surface, the process can also involve roughening as in satin, matte or beaded finishes. In short, the ceramics which are used to cut, grind and polish other softer materials are known as abrasives.

thumb|The ceiling of Dilwara Temples|Dilwara Jain Temples famous for its extraordinary marble stone carvings and architectural design. Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. The technique can be applied to any material that is solid enough to hold a form even when pieces have been removed from it, and yet soft enough for portions to be scraped away with available tools. Carving, as a means for making stone or wooden sculpture, is distinct from methods using soft and malleable materials like clay, fruit, and melted glas

art of shaping stone materials

sculpture that uses ice as the raw material

carving of animal tooth or tusk by using sharp cutting tools

practice of making leather into craft objects or works of art

thumb|American whaling ships, scrimshaw on whale tooth, c. 1800 Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers, engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses.

folk art of carving designs in animal bones, teeth, horns, or antlers, or making figures or implements from these materials

sculptoric technique

is a style of carving in which knives or chisels are used to remove small chips of the material

concentric hollow spheres carved from a single solid block

Chinese form of lacquerware

art of creating three-dimensional forms from marble

Dievdirbys ("God worker/craftsman", plural: ) is a Lithuanian wood carver who crafts Catholic statues of Jesus and the Christian saints. In the 18th-20th centuries, self-taught poor peasants mostly did it. The art is closely related to Lithuanian cross crafting, listed among Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO.

Russian traditional handcraft