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CARVING DESIGNS & PATTERNS xx CARVING xx DESIGNS & PATTERNS Oversize wooden arrow fits through the neck of a bottle. The point is inside and the fins are outside. How to carve a Tudor rosette (a six-petalled flower head used to decorate woodwork). Compositions in wood. The basics of woodcarving. A brief description of eight of the most common methods used. Guidelines on composition, balance, shape, tension, framing and horizon. Decorative designs for carving on furniture. Tips on drawing your own designs. Design and tips for carving a miniature work boot. Four ways to enlarge or reduce a pattern for carving. Tip explains how to transfer a photocopy of a pattern to be carved onto wood. Pattern and instructions for carving a Viking ship prow (10"x14") based on a Norwegian drawing made in 1885. Aid to relief carving. How to use a slide projector to trace a pattern for relief woodcarving of a house. A survey of carving being done in the Siberian region of Russia. Includes front and profile sketches of 15 figures to carve. Woodcarving along the Danube River in Europe. Includes two-view patterns for several figurines, a drinking cup, a loving spoon, and two small boxes. How to carve anything you wish. Learning how to draw is the most important step in visualizing what you want to carve. Heat-iron pattern transfer techniques using copy machine prints of a pattern. Tip on making relief carvings of the endless interlaced ribbon patterns favored by the Celts. Four-view pattern for carving a miniature chainsaw. How to come up with design ideas for relief carving. Advice on where to look for ideas. Techniques for basic decorative design of woodcarvings. Part 1. How to create symmetrical patterns in segments using "C" and "S" scroll elements. Roses and scrollwork relief carving pattern. Techniques for basic decorative design of woodcarvings. Part 2. Parchment scrolls as a design element. Fireman's boot woodcarving pattern. Techniques for basic decorative design of woodcarvings. Part 3. Stretcher elements and background treatments. Techniques for basic decorative design of woodcarvings. Part 4. Objectives to follow when putting a design together. Leaf Northwind pattern. Roman cornice. Pattern for a mythical animal features a bird's head, clawed hands, human-like arms, wings, and fish tail (which merges into a leaf motif). Sketch of a fluted shell design suitable for carving. A box for Jackie. Tips on adapting and personalizing a pattern for chip carving on a basswood jewelry box. Includes carving tips. Sketch of an ornate scroll which forms a carved decoration on the corner of a picture frame. Carving design decisions. Questions which a woodcarver should answer before he begins a sculpture in wood. Gothic tracery. Working with intriguing medieval designs in doing wood panels, table tops, stretchers, etc. Tips on tracing the design and then carving out the panels. How to draw and carve the decorative fans which are a part of Queen Anne, Georgian and Chippendale furniture. Cockleshell. Giant carving gives a corner cupboard "class". One-fourth of a hollow sphere over 17" in radius is built up from laminated layers of wood. It is then hand carved to form a giant cockleshell pattern which enhances the top shelf of an elegant corner cupboard. How to design, laminate and carve the apparently complex fan and shell carvings on heirloom furniture. Tips from a London carving shop. The secret to carving scrolls, foliage and other ornaments on furniture is a good working drawing. Five-step approach to carving an ornate frame for a wall mirror is illustrated. Crowning glory. Hand carving pineapple and flame finials like those found on 18th-century furniture. Carving a scallop shell, a popular detail on English and Colonial furniture throughout the 18th century. Tip on using masking tape and a soft pencil to transfer a carving pattern from the original. How to make a basic parchment-fold panel, the simplest form of linenfold carving. This was developed by medieval Gothic joiners to decorate the panels of doors, cabinets, and wainscoting. Carving the classic Newport shell motif often found on Newport furniture in the 18th century. Making 'moon faces' is an interesting beginners carving project. Use them on necklaces, key chains, etc. How to carve a pretzel. How to put the arrow through a stump. A solid wooden arrow with a point and feathers larger than the hole in another piece through which it is passes. This article tells how to pass the arrow through the smaller hole. Whittling three interlocked rings from a single block of wood. High-button shoe pattern shows front, back, and two side views. The bookworm. A front and side profile. Pattern for a "gnome" with hands in his pocket. Carve from pine or basswood. Tip: An irregular shaped block of wood, carved with miscellaneous patterns and featuring a tag reading "You MAY handle this" will liven up a carving show. How to incorporate the grain pattern of wood into the finished design. Some tips. Fun with a jackknife. (1) Whittle a wooden chain connected to a wooden cage with a round ball inside. (2) Whittle a pair of wooden scissors or wooden pliers. (3) Whittle a bird in a bird cage. A variation on the "ball-in-cage" whittling. This one features a wheel and axle that rolls back and forth inside a cage. Carved from a single piece of wood about 5" long and 1" square. Pattern for a beautiful mantlepiece display features a stylized carved sailboat mounted on a wood base with a background in the shape of a billowing cloud. Carve a shoe with the toe worn out and five toes exposed to view. Step-by-step instructions on how to carve a gable-end shell ornament and how to build a gable fan. Three wood-carved novelty dolls. (1) A pipe smoking man incense burner. (2) "Otto the Drunk", a liquor bottle cap which "drinks" from a wine bottle. (3) "Fritz and Frieda" bottle stopper. They kiss when lever is pulled. Beginner's relief carving project. Pattern and instructions for carving a design which incorporates a grapevine and wine glass. Two-point perspective for relief carving. Part 1. How to develop a pattern that uses shadow and optical illusion to portray the fullness of the subject matter. Includes a pattern for a California fishing boat. Two-point perspective for relief carving. Part 2. Techniques of foreshortening and three-dimensional depth perspective. Two-point perspective for relief carving. Part 3. Carving a California fishing boat. Step-by-step relief carving of a grape and leaf design is illustrated. Pattern and tips for carving a pair of miniature cowboy boots. Tips on learning to draw your own woodcarving patterns, even if you are not "artistically inclined." Drawing as preparation for carving in the round. Learning to sketch will improve your woodcarvings. Drawing power. Advice on learning how to draw well enough to produce the patterns needed in woodcarving. Relief patterns. Hints on creating patterns for relief carving. Also includes instructions for making and using a pantograph. A model example. Tips on making a clay model of a 3-D carving project prior to starting. Simple jig for tracing around a three-dimensional object (such as a small sculpture) in order to produce an outline (pattern) for carving a reproduction. Cartoon characters. John Marshall explains how he transfers his drawings of comic figures to wood. Tip suggests how to use the grain structure of wood to make and highlight a carving design. Research, your best tool. How vital research is the best tool when carving bird and animal figures, both lifelike and stylized. Part 1. Research, your best tool. How vital research is the best tool when carving bird and animal figures, both lifelike and stylized. Part 2. Where to go for specimens and samples. Making maquettes (a small model of a planned sculpture). Part 1. Materials for making maquettes. Making maquettes (a small model of a planned sculpture). Part 2. How to make plaster casts and molds to simulate the finished carving. Tip on using an inexpensive opague projector, mounted on the ceiling, to continuously project the carving pattern directly on the work piece. Pattern for carving the acanthus leaf, one of the most consistent motifs of decoration in the history of art and architecture. Zigzags, chevrons and billets. A survey of the bold and uncomplicated motifs of England's earliest carvers. Carving a thunderbird panel. Adapted from the woodworking culture of America's northwestern Indians. Terracotta angels. A Victorian pattern for the woodcarver. How to relief-carve the Tudor rose symbol. Wooden panel features a religious carving of a lamb and cross. Incised carving creates a decorative wheat pattern. Carved pineapple is a traditional symbol of hospitality in New England. A good relief-carving project. Linenfold carving. Using planes and chisels to replicate ecclesiastical woodcarvings designed to duplicate the pattern formed by draped altar cloths. Hand carved knife and ladle. How to carve "pierced" wood panels. Patterns for grape vine and wheat stalk included. | |||||||||
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