Archive for January, 2012
This is the tool that Bob Hergert mentions in the audio interview. Precision made. Quote from thier site: “Carbide Scrimshaw Tool Handle, close work black, CUSHIONED brass...
An email interview with Susan Lovatt: What made you decide on scrimshaw for this installation? I used scrimshaw as a medium because it is...
Don’t know if the pictures are Creative Commons or not, but http://www.lighthouseinn-ct.com/ has more lighthouses than I knew existed! All up and down the coast of the US, and on the...
Engravingschool.com has a great page about bulino, or “dot” engraving. A quote from their site: “It takes little, if any, equipment to give the technique a try and...
We don’t know much about “MIB” – they created this beautiful art nouveau jewelry in 1989, and that it appears to be held...
A great repository of public domain images. The US Fish and Wildlife service’s digital library is huge, and somewhat cumbersome to browse through, unless...
So far we have a written question, hoping for some pictures soon: “I have a tooth with a fairly complicated carving of a large sailing ship and...
Brian Kirakofe and Peter Driscoll are scrimming on ivory, but they’ve added a neat new twist – putting it onto flash drives! ...
Ed Weber is an accomplished scrimshaw artist, mainly working in the “stipple” technique. Ed also creates one of a kind truss rod covers for your favorite...
The Maori people from New Zealand and the Pacific have been carving bone for both tool and artistic purposes for years. Their designs are both...
