| LC control no. | sh 85147809 |
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| LC classification | NK9700 NK9799 Decorative arts TT199.7 TT199.75 Handicraft |
| Topical heading | Wood-carving |
| Variant(s) | Whittling Wood-carving, Primitive Wood carvings Wood craft Woodcarving Woodcraft |
| See also | Carving (Decorative arts) Woodwork Wood sculpture |
| Scope note | Here are entered works on carved, cut, or gouged wood having both a decorative and functional purpose. Works on art works made by carving or assembling components of wood and created primarily for their aesthetic value are entered under Wood sculpture. |
| Subject example tracing | Note under Wood sculpture |
| Found in | Random House (woodcarving) Grove dict. art: v. 33, p. 333 (Wood, Techniques: Carving. Besides the knife, the basic tools of woodcarving--the technique of cutting ornament and sculpture in wood--are those used by any woodworker.) index (wood-carvings) AAT (woodcarving--use for the art of fashioning or ornamenting objects of wood by cutting with a sharp implement) Art index: v. 43 (hdgs: Wood carving, African, etc.) LC database, July 20, 2000 (woodcraft; wood craft) Thesaurus for graphic materials, via WWW, Nov. 8, 2011 (Wood carving. Scope note: Fashioning or ornamenting objects of wood by cutting with a sharp implement held in the hand. BT Carving. RT Wood carvings; Woodworking) |
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