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  • Bone carving
    Bone carving

    Bone carving is the act of creating art forms by carving into Bone. 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, including the Maori Queen of New Zealand....
  • Chip carving
    Chip carving

    Chip carving, also sometimes called spoon carving, is a style of wood carving in which knives are used to remove small chips of wood from the project surface in a single piece....
  • EQ carving, an application of equalization
    Equalization

    Equalization, equalisation or EQ is the process of using passive or active electronic elements or digital algorithms for the purpose of altering the frequency response characteristics of a system....
     in audio mixing
    Audio mixing

    Audio Mixing may refer to:*Audio mixing *Audio mixing *Audio mixing ...
  • Gourd carving
    Gourd art

    Gourd art involves creating works of art by painting on dried gourd shells based on the principles of pointillism. During , gourd surfaces may be carved, sanded, burned, dyed, and polished....
  • Ice carving
    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 ornamentation of ivory by using sharp cutting tools, either mechanically or manually.Humans have ornamentally carved ivory since prehistoric times, and much of the prehistoric work reveals information about the use of tools during the carving's time period....
  • Meat carving
    Meat carving

    Meat carving is the process and skill of cutting portions of meat, such as roasting and poultry, to obtain a maximum or satisfactory number of meat portions, using a carving knife or meat-slicing machine....
  • Rock carving
  • Skiing
    Skiing

    Snow skiing is a group of sports using skis as primary equipment. Skis are used in conjunction with ski boots that connect to the ski with use of a ski bindings....
     or snowboarding
    Snowboarding

    Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is either partially or fully covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set into a mounted binding....
     carving style, see carve turn
    Carve turn

    A carve turn is a skiing term, used to refer to a turning technique. A carve turn happens when the ski shifts to one side or the other on its edges....
  • Stone carving
    Stone carving

    Stone carving is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural Rock 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....
  • Wood carving
    Wood carving

    Wood carving is a form of Woodworking by means of a cutting tool held in the hand , resulting in a wooden figure or figurine or in the sculpture ornamentation of a wooden object....


See also

  • Sculpture
    Sculpture

    Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
  • Lapidary
    Lapidary

    A lapidary is an artisan who practices the craft of working, forming and finishing Rock , mineral, gemstones, and other suitably durable materials into functional and/or decorative, even wearable, items ....
  • Scrimshaw
    Scrimshaw

    Scrimshaw is the name given to handiwork created by whalings made from the byproducts of harvesting marine mammals. It is most commonly made out of the bones and tooth of Sperm Whales, the baleen of other whales, and the tusks of walruses....