Description: Over 1,000 detailed drawings and photographs illustrate this comprehensive sourcebook, offering artists, woodcarvers and other crafts-people a rich selection of forms, patterns, and motifs from around the world. Ranging from Viking carvings to the heraldic crest designs of North-west Coast Indians, from the spirit and god carvings of Oceania to Ivory Coast masks, hundreds of beautiful and functional forms, decorations, and pattern compositions have been arranged according to their fundamental format -- lines, circles, and twined, plant, and animal forms. For each design, the authors identify its proper cultural and historical period and describe the tools, techniques and materials used in its creation. The result is not only a quick and easy reference to a wide range of carving motifs, but an indispensable resource that artists and craftspeople will treasure for its wealth of inspiration, guidance and practical information.

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