Carving
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Arts

  • Bone carving
    Bone carving
    Bone carving is the act of creating art forms by carving into animal bones and often includes the carving of antlers and horns. It can result in the ornamentation of a bone, or the creation of a figure. It has been practiced by a variety of world cultures, sometimes as a cheaper substitute for...

  • Chip carving
    Chip carving
    Chip carving or chip-carving, kerbschnitt in German, is a style of carving in which knives or chisels are used to remove small chips of the material from a flat surface in a single piece. The style became important in Migration Period metalwork, mainly Animal style jewellery, where the faceted...

  • Gourd carving or Gourd art
    Gourd art
    Gourd art involves creating works of art using Lagenaria spp. hard-shell gourds as an art medium. Gourd surfaces may be carved, painted, sanded, burned, dyed, and polished...

  • Ice carving or Ice sculpture
    Ice sculpture
    Ice sculpture is a form of sculpture that uses ice as the raw material. Sculptures from ice can be abstract or realistic and can be functional or purely decorative...

  • Ivory carving
    Ivory carving
    Ivory carving is the carving of ivory, that is to say animal tooth or tusk, by using sharp cutting tools, either mechanically or manually. The ancient craft has now virtually ceased, as since CITES it is illegal under most circumstances throughout the world....

  • Stone carving
    Stone carving
    Stone carving is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Owing to the permanence of the material, evidence can be found that even the earliest societies indulged in some form of stone work....

    • Petroglyph
      Petroglyph
      Petroglyphs are pictogram and logogram images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, and abrading. Outside North America, scholars often use terms such as "carving", "engraving", or other descriptions of the technique to refer to such images...

  • Vegetable carving
    Vegetable carving
    Vegetable carving is the art of carving vegetables to form beautiful objects, such as flowers or birds.-The origins of vegetable carving:The origins of vegetable carving are disputed: many people believe it to have begun in Sukothai, Thailand 700 years ago, while others believe that vegetable...

  • Wood carving
    Wood carving
    Wood carving is a form of working wood by means of a cutting tool 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...


Others

  • Data carving and/or file carving
    File carving
    File carving is the process of reassembling computer files from fragments in the absence offilesystem metadata. The carving process makes use of knowledge of common file structures, information contained in files, and heuristics regarding how filesystems fragment data...

    , two closely related data recovery techniques
  • Meat carving
    Meat carving
    Meat carving is the process and skill of cutting portions of meat, such as roast and poultry, to obtain a maximum or satisfactory number of meat portions, using a carving knife or meat-slicing machine. A meat carver disjoints the meat and slices in uniform portions...

  • Skiing or snowboarding carving style, see carve turn
    Carve turn
    A carve turn is a skiing term, used to refer to a turning technique in which the ski shifts to one side or the other on its edges. In this case, the ski turns itself and is driven by the sidecut geometry while losing no speed, unlike a normal parallel turn....

  • Carve (video game)
    Carve (video game)
    Carve is a racing video game developed by Argonaut Games and published by Global Star Software released exclusively for the Xbox....

    , a 2004 racing video game
  • Carved (film)
    Carved (film)
    Carved with the Japanese title Kuchisake-onna, is a J-Horror movie, released on August 14, 2007, directed by Kôji Shiraishi and written by Naoyuki Yokota and Kôji Shiraishi....

    , a 2007 J-Horror movie
  • Carvings (Indiana State Library)
    Carvings (Indiana State Library)
    Carvings , is a series of bas-relief limestone panels decorating the facade of the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The reliefs were designed by artist Leon Hermant and carved by German sculptor Adolph Wolter in 1934...

    , a series of bas-relief limestone panels decorating the facade of the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
  • Carved Records
    Carved Records
    Carved Records is an American record label operating out of Dallas, Texas, that began operation in 2009.-History:Carved Records was formed by CEO Tim Porter and Vice President of Operations Phil Thomas .After forming Carved Records, Porter and Thomas secured...

    , an American record label
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