The Society of Wood Engravers (SWE) is a UK-based artists’ exhibiting society formed in 1920, one of its founder-members being Eric Gill. Membership is...
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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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for social workers in England Society of Women Engineers, a non-profit engineering organization Society of Wood Engravers, a British printmakers' group...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Janka hardness test (redirect from Janka Wood hardness rating)
American researcher Gabriel Janka (1864–1932), measures the resistance of a sample of wood to denting and wear.[citation needed] It measures the force required...
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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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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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A wood shaper (usually just shaper in North America or spindle moulder in the UK and Europe), is a stationary woodworking machine in which a vertically...
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Dala horse (category Culture of Sweden)
also centres of horse-making. The villages were involved in the art of furniture and clock-making, and it is likely the leftover scraps of wood were put to...
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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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Golden Cockerel Press (category Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom)
the leading wood engravers of the day (he was a founder member and leading light of the Society of Wood Engravers) and a number of authors, which enabled...
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meaning that for the first and second longitudinal cut on untreated massive wood, the lumber always had to be fed manually through the saw blade. The new...
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Wood is a structural tissue/material found as xylem in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic material – a natural composite...
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Bandsaws can be used to make every type of cut in woodworking. batten A strip of solid material, historically of wood, used for various construction purposes...
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actual wood, with each sheet of veneer having a distinct look. Unlike laminates, no two veneer sheets look the same. Veneer refers to thin slices of wood and...
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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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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 stave is a narrow length of wood with a slightly bevelled edge to form the sides of barrels, tanks, tubs, vats and pipelines, originally handmade by...
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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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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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Plane (tool) (redirect from Wood plane)
A hand plane is a tool for shaping wood using muscle power to force the cutting blade over the wood surface. Some rotary power planers are motorized power...
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Framing (construction) (redirect from Wood-frame house)
fitting together of pieces to give a structure, particularly a building, support and shape. Framing materials are usually wood, engineered wood, or structural...
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