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Woodcarving Illustrated

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Try your hand at a traditional craft

By Lora S. Irish

SPECIAL SOURCES:

For more patterns from Lora S. Irish, visit her

website at www.carvingpatterns.com. The

site features free patterns and patterns for

purchase, as well as helpful carving advice.

The patterns are only available online.

Possibly the oldest form of decorative carving, chip carving

designs are incised into wood. Chip carving is almost the

inverse of relief carving, where the background is carved away

to leave the design. Chip carving designs are often geometrical,

but they can also be free-form, like these patterns. I combined

conventional three-sided chips with more flowing cuts to make

modern designs with a traditional flair. I used the patterns to

make plaques, but you could also carve the designs into boxes,

furniture, or cabinets. These patterns might also be fun to

woodburn.

For a detailed history of chip carving, visit earlyamericanwritings.

blogspot.com and scroll down to the 2009 section to find the

article link. For more patterns or books about chip carving,

including instructional DVDs, visit www.foxchapelpublishing.

com and search for “chip carving.”

Free-Form Chip Carving