Members of the Paete Artists’ Guild make wood carvings using three tree species and rate their acceptability as raw material. Good news for the country’s wood carving industry, which has been ...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – There’s wood carving, and then there’s serious wood-carving. The Rio Rancho Observer reports the city is paying wood sculptor Mark Chavez $5,000 to turn a dead tree trunk at ...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...

PINE RIVER — Balsam Moon Preserve is offering Wooden Spoon Carving 101 from 1-5 p.m. March 15. Instructor Mike Austad of rural Pine River has been carving spoons for about 10 years, along with a ...

This question was provided by students from Ms. Tyus’ fifth-grade class at Benton Elementary. “Trees grow at the tips of their branches instead of the base of the trunk, a carving in the tree would ...

THE art of wood carving is one that has been around for decades, synonymous with the identity of Malays. While it is considered a cottage industry, the craft has a huge growth potential, largely due ...