Editing Chip carving

{{short description|Style of carving}}
{{more citations needed|date=June 2018}}
[[File:ChipCarving.JPG|thumb|right|Chip carving in wood]]
'''Chip carving''' or '''chip-carving''', ''kerbschnitt'' in German, is a style of carving in which [[Knife|knives]] or [[chisel]]s are used to remove small chips of the material from a flat surface in a single piece.  The style became important in [[Migration Period art|Migration Period]] metalwork, mainly [[animal style]] jewellery, where the faceted surfaces created caught the light to give a glinting appearance.  This was very probably a transfer to metalworking of a technique already used in [[woodcarving]], but no wooden examples have survived. Famous [[Anglo-Saxon]] examples include the jewellery from [[Sutton Hoo]] and the [[Tassilo Chalice]], although the style originated in mainland Europe.  In later British and Irish metalwork, the same style was imitated using [[casting]], which is often called '''imitation chip-carving''', or sometimes just chip carving (authors are not always careful to distinguish the two), a term also sometimes applied to [[pottery]] decorated in a similar way.

==Woodwork==
In modern [[wood carving]], the style is also called '''spoon carving'''.  The style is traditional in the [[folk art]] of many countries.  Patterns can be free form style or based on [[geometric]] figures. In America it is mostly used with [[basswood]], [[Caryocar nuciferum|butternut]], [[pine]], or [[mahogany]].  Chip carving knives can also be used for [[whittling]], [[cabinet making]], and general [[workbench]] purposes.

== External links ==
* {{cite web | url = http://www.chipchats.org/ | publisher = National Wood Carvers Association | title = ''Chip Chats'' Magazine }}

{{decorative arts}}
{{Woodworking}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Carving]]
[[Category:Woodcarving]]
[[Category:Jewellery making]]