Engraving

thumb|Saint Jerome in His Study (Dürer)|St. Jerome in His Study (1514), engraving by [[Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer]] Engraving is the practice of incising a design on a hard, usually flat surface by cutting grooves into it with a burin. The result may be a decorated object in itself, as when silver, gold, steel, or glass are engraved, or may provide an intaglio printing plate, of copper or another metal, for printing images on paper as prints or illustrations; these images are also called "engravings". Engraving is one of the oldest and most important techniques in printmaking.

printmaking technique

small carved gemstones

printmaking process of engraving using plates of steel or steel-faced copper

thumb|Diagram of rotogravure process

practice of using lasers to engrave an object

Microprinting is the production of recognizable patterns or characters in a printed medium at a scale that typically requires magnification to read with the naked eye. To the unaided eye, the text may appear as a solid line. Attempts to reproduce by methods of photocopy, image scanning, or pantograph typically translate as a dotted or solid line, unless the reproduction method can identify and recreate patterns to such scale. Microprint is predominantly used as an anti-counterfeiting technique, due to its inability to be easily reproduced by widespread digital methods.

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.

technique used to create tone in a print

Printing of documents protected against counterfeiting

thumb|right|A print made in 1907 from a photoengraved plate. It reproduces a sketch of Parga's castle made by Ludwig Salvator. Photoengraving is a process that uses a light-sensitive photoresist applied to the surface to be engraved to create a mask that protects some areas during a subsequent operation which etches, dissolves, or otherwise removes some or all of the material from the unshielded areas of a substrate. Normally applied to metal, it can also be used on glass, plastic and other materials.

thumb|upright|A punch (left) and the respective matrix produced from it (right). The small letters at the base of the matrix are founder's marks.

printing and photoengraving technique

International Art Medal Federation

United Kingdom legislation

form of decorative glasswork that involves engraving a glass surface or object

system of patterns used in heraldry

archaeological site in South Goa District, India

is the Japanese art technique and Japanese craft of engraving dyed ivory.

thumb|280px|Wakizashi forged by Koyama Sōbei Munetsugu with a horimono engraved on the blade by Shōji Zenbei Nobutatsu. A [[vajra is engraved to pray for the protection of the offspring. Edo period]] right|thumb|100px|Antique Japanese wakizashi sword blade showing the horimono, of a chrysanthemum Horimono (, , literally carving, engraving), also known as chōkoku (, "sculpture"), are the engraved images in the blade of a nihonto () Japanese sword, which may include katana or tantō blades. The artist is called a chōkokushi (), or a horimonoshi (, "engraver").