Essential woodcarving techniques

Tools and equipment

Selecting and buying suitable wood

First cuts: chip carving

Carved mouldings

Foliage: copying a natural leaf in wood

Carving traditional foliage

Linenfold

Carving a commonplace object in high relief

Carving in the round

Carving a bowl

Carving an animal in the round

Carving the human figure

Stylizing the figure

Carving an abstract

Incised lettering.