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Wood-carving

Here are entered works on carved, cut, or gouged wood having both a decorative and functional purpose. Works on art works made by carving or assembling components of wood and created primarily for their aesthetic value are entered under Wood sculpture.

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• Carving (Decorative arts)
• Woodwork

• Wood sculpture

• Wood-carving -- Australia
• Wood-carving -- Austria
• Wood-carving -- Belgium
• Wood-carving -- Bibliography
• Wood-carving -- British Columbia
• Wood-carving -- Burma
• Wood-carving -- California
• Wood-carving -- Cameroon
• Wood-carving -- Canada
• Wood-carving -- Castile
• Wood-carving -- Catalogs
• Wood-carving -- China
• Wood-carving -- England
• Wood-carving -- France
• Wood-carving -- Germany
• Wood-carving -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Wood-carving -- History
• Wood-carving -- Indonesia
• Wood-carving -- Italy
• Wood-carving -- Japan
• Wood-carving -- Juvenile fiction
• Wood-carving -- Melanesia
• Wood-carving -- Mexico
• Wood-carving -- Morocco
• Wood-carving -- Netherlands
• Wood-carving -- New Guinea
• Wood-carving -- New York (State)
• Wood-carving -- Norway
• Wood-carving -- Papua New Guinea
• Wood-carving -- Patterns
• Wood-carving -- Private collections
• Wood-carving -- Québec (Province)
• Wood-carving -- Russia
• Wood-carving -- Soviet Union
• Wood-carving -- Spain
• Wood-carving -- Study and teaching
• Wood-carving -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
• Wood-carving -- Technique
• Wood-carving -- Ukraine
• Wood-carving -- United States
• Cigar-store Indians
• Indian wood-carving
• Islamic wood-carving
• Wood-carving, Baroque
• Wood-carving, Danish
• Wood-carving, East Indian
• Wood-carving, French
• Wood-carving, German
• Wood-carving, Gothic
• Wood-carving, Renaissance
• Wood-carving, Spanish
• Wood-carving, Swedish
• Wood-carving, Tudor
• Wood-carving, Ukrainian
• Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Wood-carving

• Whittling
• Woodcarving
• Wood-carving, Primitive
• Wood carvings
• Wood craft
• Woodcraft

• The Art of Wood Carving: Practical Hints to Amateurs, and a Short History of the Art (London: Virtue and Co., 1867), by George Alfred Rogers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Manual of Wood Carving (revised edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1909), by Charles Godfrey Leland and John J. Holtzapffel (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1903), by George Jack, ed. by W. R. Lethaby (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Wood carvings in English churches (H. Frowde, 1910), by Francis Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wood-carver of Salem : Samuel McIntire, his life and work (Little, Brown, and Company, 1916), by Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worship in wood (American seating company, 1927), by Thomas M Boyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• La menuiserie da̕rt (Librairie da̕rt R. Ducher, 1928), by Etienne Ausseur (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Choir stalls and their carvings; examples of misericords from English cathedrals and churches (B. T. Batsford, 1896), by Emma Phipson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grinling Gibbons and the woodwork of his age (1648-1720) ("Country life" and George Newnes ;, 1914), by H. Avray Tipping (page images at HathiTrust)
• The panelled rooms. (Printed under the authority of H.M. Stationery off., 1914), by Victoria and Albert Museum. Dept. of Woodwork, Oliver Bracket, and H. Clifford Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le bois. (D. A. Longuet, 1905), by Louis Metman, Gaston Brière, and Musée des arts décoratifs (France) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wood sculpture. (Methuen, 1911), by Alfred Maskell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il legno nell'arte italiana; riproduzioni in parte inedite di saggi dal periodo romanico al neo-classico; duecentosettantasette tavole con 451 illustrazioni raccolte e ordinate, con testo esplicativo (U. Hoepli, 1911), by Giulio Ferrari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wood forms, a writing in Basic English about a basic interest in the forms of things ([Glendale, O., 1943), by Erastus S Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood carving: design and workmanship (Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1925), by George Jack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patternmaking ; Molding ; Core making ; Cupola practice (International Textbook Co., 1903), by International Textbook Company and International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood carving: design and workmanship (D. Appleton, 1903), by George Jack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Woodcarving. (Evans brothers limited, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fret-sawing and wood-carving (Lee and Shepard;, 1875), by George A. Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chip carving (The Manual arts press, 1922), by Harris W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das altchristliche hauptportal an der kirche der hl. Sabina auf dem Aventinischen Hügel zu Rom. (Paulinus-Druckerei, 1900), by Johannes Wiegand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Let's whittle. (Manual Arts Press, 1948), by Leroy Pynn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Creative crafts in wood (The Manual arts press, 1945), by Michael Carlton Dank (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wood carving made easy (The Bruce publishing company, 1936), by John Irving Sowers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of wood carving : practical hints to amateurs and a short history of the art (Virtue, 1867), by George Alfred Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of fret-cutting and wood-carving. (G. Routledge, 1875), by Thomas Seaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The panelled rooms. (Printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1920), by Victoria and Albert Museum. Dept. of Woodwork, Oliver Brackett, and H. Clifford Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood sculpture (Putnam, 1911), by Alfred Maskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The panelled rooms ... (Printed under the authority of H.M. Stationery Off., 1922), by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Woodwork, Oliver Brackett, and H. Clifford Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of wood carving with practical instructions for learners of the art, and original and selected designs. (Bemrose & sons, 1868), by William Bemrose and Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical wood-carving : a book for the student, carver, teacher, designer, and architect (B. T. Batsford ltd., 1907), by Eleanor Rowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etudes sur l'histoire de l'art allemand : quelques manuscrits attribués aux Xe et XIe siècles : la porte en bois de Saint-Marie de Cologne. (J. H. E. Heitz, 1913), by A. Marignan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of wood carving with practical instructions for learners of the art, and original and selected designs. (Bemrose & sons, in the 19th century), by William Bemrose and Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood carvings in English churches (Oxford University Press, 1910), by Francis Bond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Easy lessons in the art of practical wood carving, suited to the wants of carpenters, joiners, amateurs and professional wood carvers; being a practical manual and guide to all kinds of wood carving ... together with an essay on the principles of design for carved work of all kinds (F. J. Drake, 1905), by Fred. T. Hodgson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bench-ends in English churches (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1916), by J. Charles Cox (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical wood carving. A simple treatise on the rudiments of wood carving (D. Williams Co., 1897), by Charles J. Woodsend (page images at HathiTrust)
• La porte de Sainte-Sabine à Rome, étude archéologique (Librairie de l'Université, 1892), by J. J. Berthier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les intérieurs et les boiseries sculptées du Château de Rambouillet. (A. Guérinet, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fret cutting and perforated carving, with practical instructions (Bemrose, 1870), by William Bemrose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue, classe I, Le bois. (Lib. des Imp. réunies, Motteroz, 1889), by Musée des arts décoratifs (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chip-carving and other surface carving. (B.T. Batsford, 1908), by Eleanor Rowe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wood carving (Whittaker, 1991), by Charles Godfrey Leland and John J. Holtzapffel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hints on wood-carving, recreative classes and modeling for beginners. (B.T. Batsford, 1905), by Eleanor Rowe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wood carving : design and workmanship (John Hogg, 1913), by George Jack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood carving in practice and theory, as applied to home arts : with notes on design having special application to carved wood in different styles ([publisher not identified], 1891), by François Louis Schauermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook of geometrical wood carving. (Kellogg, 1895), by Gustaf Larsson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of wood carving, with practical instructions for learners of the art, and original and selected designs. (Bemrose, 1900), by William Bemrose (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nouveau manuel complet de la sculpture sur bois, contenant la description des outils les plus usités et des bois les plus convenables pour ce travail, ainsi que les moyens pratiques de sculpture ... (L. Mulo, 1911), by S. Lacombe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Medeltida altarskåp och träsniderier i Finlands kyrkor. (K.F. Puromies Boktryckeri, 1908), by Karl Konrad Meinander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Moderne Holzbildhauerarbeiten : eine Sammlung neuzeitlicher, Leichta ausfuhrbarer Entwürfe von Holzxchnitzereien zur Kn̈stleriscen Belebung von Möbel und Bautishclerarbeiten Aller Art (Bernh. Friedr. Voigt, 1914), by M. Schorfenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Apprentices' work : July 1900-1902 (Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts, 1902), by D. H. Biggs and Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts (page images at HathiTrust)
• A village class for drawing and wood carving : hints to teachers (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1891), by Gertrude Martineau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood carving : being a carefully graduated educational course for schools and adult classes. (Chapman, 1896), by Joseph Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood carving and whittling ; a practical handbook of drawings and detailed instructions that will show you how to start and to acquire skill in the fascinating hobby and art of wood carving (Grosset & Dunlap, 1946), by Popular science monthly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood carving and whittling ; a practical handbook of drawings and detailed instructions that will show you how to start and to acquire skill in the fascinating hobby and art of wood carving (Popular science publishing company, inc., 1936), by Popular Science Monthly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A course of instruction in wood carving according to the Japanese method (Offices of "The Studio", 1899), by Charles Holme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mittelalterliche Verzierungen aus dem fünfzehnten Jahrhundert, etc. (München, 1852), by Anton Harrer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood-carving of Burma ([publisher not identified], 1903), by Harry L. Tilly (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Original designs for wood-carving : with practical instructions in the art (Longmans, Green, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arts of wood-carving and pyrography. (Butterick Pub. Co., 1893), by Butterick Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to carve characters in wood (University of New Mexico Press, 1953), by Herbert S. Anderson and Al Paul Theil (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wood Carvings in English Churches: I. Stalls and Tabernacle Work. II. Bishop's Thrones and Chancel Chairs., by Francis Bond (Gutenberg ebook)

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