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- Wood carving
- topic's main category
- Category:Woodcarving
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- Wood carving
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- intangible cultural heritage status
- National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France
- practiced by
- wood carver
- uses
- wood
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Encyclopedic overview
Woodcarver at work Wood sculpture made by Alexander Grabovetskiy Wood carving, also spelt woodcarving, is a form of woodworking by means of a cutting tool (knife) in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object. The phrase may also refer to the finished product, from individual sculptures to hand-worked mouldings composing part of a tracery.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “wood carving” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.