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Scrimshaw - Wikipedia A maker of scrimshaw is known as a scrimshander [1] The word first appeared in the logbook of the brig By Chance in 1826, [2] but the etymology is uncertain [3]
SCRIMSHANDER Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster Native peoples of Alaska and Canada have carved ivory for centuries, but when "scrimshaw" is used in modern English, it is most often associated with 18th- and 19th-century whalers of the ilk Herman Melville described as "examining divers specimens of skrimshander" in Moby Dick (1851)
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scrimshander Scrimshaw is the art of incising or cutting designs into bone and ivory Early whalers used whales' teeth and bone to create their works of art Eskimos used mammoth and walrus tusks Today we scrimshanders use woolly mammoth tusk and ivory substitutes like micarta and corian
About Scrimshaw. com Welcome to Scrimshaw com – on the net since 1998! Would you like to know more about the artform called scrimshaw? From How-To’s to Mystery Artists, to today’s practicing scrimshanders, you can find just about everything about scrimshaw here
SCRIMSHANDER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary Traditionally, scrimshanders were whalemen, sailors, or others who made their living on the sea Scrimshaw requires great concentration and the scrimshander must work carefully For this small group of scrimshanders, continuing to carve ivory is about preserving a way of life and an art form
Jim Stevens - Page - Scrimshaw FAQ A scrimshander or gallery owner may know the market value of their own works or works in their gallery and maybe even that of some contemporaries, but that doesn't mean they know the value of a particular piece in your possession
scrimshander - Wiktionary, the free dictionary scrimshander (countable and uncountable, plural scrimshanders) Someone who scrimshaws Synonym of scrimshaw (“ manufacture of items by sailors from bone, etc ”)
History of Scrimshaw - The Scrimshander Gallery Scrimshaw is the term used for the detailed carving or engraving of pictures into bone or ivory No one knows the derivation of the word “scrimshaw”, but it sounds like an old sailor’s term to us - and that’s exactly who started this carving craft