An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and ...

At 91 years old, Minnie Adkins continues to dedicate herself to her craft, wood carving six hours a day, five days a week.

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

Mario Miralles spent decades acquiring the spruce and maple for string instruments worthy of Yo-Yo Ma and Gustavo Dudamel. Then he was forced to evacuate. Mario Miralles spent decades acquiring the ...

Jump-start your woodcarving with simple, traditional techniques that beginners can learn to start transforming wood into beautiful works of art. Chris Pye’s Woodcarving Course & Reference Manual (Fox ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Matryoshka dolls are a Russian folk art tradition dating back over a ...

In this video, I introduce the process of building a hand-carved sign for my logo using poplar wood, without the use of a CNC machine. The project involves using a router for bulk material removal ...

A woman who creates life-like wooden sculptures of birds has won a national wood carving competition. Maggie Port won first place in the bird of prey category at the British Decoy and Wildfowl Carving ...

In the world of wood carving, not only are skills necessary, but also the right tools. However, one of them is often underestimated even by experienced craftsmen – this is FST. In every wood carving ...