5 sentences with “carving”

These are vessels of exceptional technical perfection and elegant carving, which must have been used for ritual ceremonies.

The Argyle mine sells almost all the rough stones through its Antwerp representative, but reserves the best for carving in its Perth workshop, which is my next stop.

In the late 1440s, a German goldsmith named Johannes Gutenberg, from the town of Meinz, came up with the idea of carving individual letters into small movable blocks of wood (or casting them in metal) that could be rearranged as necessary to create words.

In the sunken plaza of the Old Temple of Chavín de Huantar (Central Andes, Peru), a stone carving 1300 years B.C. was found with a serpentine-haired figure, jaguar fangs, an amphisbena -reptil- as a belt and eagle claws holding a San Pedro cactus (Trichocereus pachanoi).

Sometimes, the debris from the carving is seen as sophisticated artefacts. However, it is the remains and splinters of bones that are scattered all over the ground. They are then scraped, smoothed and carved to be used for other purposes: bases, anvils, burins or drills.