The Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) is a UK-based artists’ exhibiting society, formed in 1920, one of its founder-members being Eric Gill. It was originally...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on wood engraving Wood Engravers Network Society of Wood Engravers...
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Gwen Raverat (category English wood engravers)
1885 – 11 February 1957), was an English wood engraver who was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Her memoir Period Piece was published...
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engineering organization Society of Wood Engravers, a British printmakers' group Software engineer Something Witty Entertainment, creators of animated web series...
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Panelling (redirect from Wood panelling)
from rigid or semi-rigid components. These are traditionally interlocking wood, but could be plastic or other materials. Panelling was developed in antiquity...
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Mallet (redirect from Wood Mallet)
often made of rubber or sometimes wood, that is smaller than a maul or beetle, and usually has a relatively large head. The term is descriptive of the overall...
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was a British wood engraver, active at the beginning of the twentieth century. He was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers (1920). He was...
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E. M. O'R. Dickey (category British wood engravers)
1977) was a wood engraver who was active at the beginning of the twentieth century. He was a founder member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Dickey (his...
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Wood carving 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...
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Robert Gibbings (category British wood engravers)
of the founder members of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920, and was a major influence in the revival of wood engraving in the twentieth century. Gibbings...
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Aspen (redirect from Longevity of aspen trees)
Shredded aspen wood is used for packing and stuffing, sometimes called excelsior (wood wool). Aspen flakes are the most common species of wood used to make...
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woodworking, veneer refers to thin slices of wood and sometimes bark that typically are glued onto core panels (typically, wood, particle board or medium-density...
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Riving knife (section Forms of kickback)
side of the saw and fixed in relation to the saw table, which must be removed to make any non-through cuts or dados within the depth of the wood. A table...
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Pressed wood, also known as presswood, is any engineered wood building and furniture construction material made from wood shavings and particles, sawdust...
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Chestnut (redirect from Chesnut wood)
with oak wood. The two woods' textures are similar. When in a growing stage, with very little sap wood, a chestnut tree contains more timber of a durable...
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Beech (redirect from Beech wood)
homes. Beechwood makes excellent firewood. Slats of washed beech wood are spread around the bottom of fermentation tanks for Budweiser beer. Beech logs...
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Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite of cellulose...
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This is a list of woods, most commonly used in the timber and lumber trade. Araucaria Hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) Monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria...
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Camphora officinarum (redirect from Camphor wood)
Sandalwood – Class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum My Neighbor Totoro – 1988 film by Hayao Miyazaki Camphor - The Wood Database Yang, Zhi;...
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at Rome in 1989, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and a member of the Society of Wood Engravers. Desmet became a lecturer at the...
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Vanessa Lubach (category Year of birth missing (living people))
"Lubach, Vanessa | The Society of Wood Engravers". Retrieved 2024-01-24. Orange!, Everything. "The Society of Wood Engravers' 84th Annual Touring Exhibition"...
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(1991), Testaments in Wood, St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, ISBN 978-0-87351-268-8. Holan, Jerri (1990), Norwegian Wood (First American ed...
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A jig is a type of custom-made tool used to control the location and/or motion of parts or other tools. A jig's primary purpose is to provide repeatability...
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Whittling (section Wood types)
the art of carving shapes out of raw wood using a knife or a time-occupying, non-artistic (contrast wood carving for artistic process) process of repeatedly...
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a structure for holding wood so that it may be cut into pieces. Easily made in the field from rough material, it consists of an "X" form at each end which...
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Ethelbert White (category English wood engravers)
artist and wood engraver. He was an early member of the Society of Wood Engravers and a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society in 1925. He...
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the ancient settlement of Larignum. The story of its naming was preserved by Vitruvius: It is worth while to know how this wood was discovered. The divine...
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