Carved in 1053, it embodies tranquillity and gracefulness, effects achieved by Jōchō's brilliant use of the joined-wood technique.
Other prints made with the same collaged-wood technique, on Indian handmade paper, remind you that paper is wood — wood pulp, anyway — and that every drawing or print is therefore a kind of sculpture.
1057 Japan Jōchō, (died 1057, Japan) great Japanese Buddhist sculptor who developed and perfected so-called kiyosehō, or joined-wood techniques.
Modern heavy-timber and laminated-wood techniques, however, provide means of building up compound members for trusses and arches that challenge steel construction for certain large-scale projects in areas where wood is plentiful.
The first master artisan on my list was 88-year-old Francisca Tulais Urbina, one of the last practitioners of macre (MAH-kray), a pre-Hispanic wood lacquering technique that achieves a warmer, less glossy surface than Asian methods.
This is due both to his skill and to the method, which unlike the wood cut technique of his predecessors, carves against the grain, in hard box wood, using fine tools normally favoured by metal engravers.
The wood engraving technique did not allow for fine lines, which is why Busch's drawing, especially in his illustrated tales up to the mid-1870s, are boldly drawn, giving his work its particular characteristic.
The wood burial technique uses natural tree growth to capture CO2 from the air at nearly no cost, thus making it significantly more economical than other carbon capture methods.
Tung, Linseed, Danish, Teak or Mineral oil can be used with this wood oiling technique.
The field combines wood processing techniques for fibre or filler preparation with polymer science and engineering, and a range of polymer processing techniques including extrusion, injection moulding, compression moulding and pultrusion.
Selection of an appropriate product for the job should be accompanied by decisions about the appropriate protection, whether this is by design, by preservative treatment or by wood modification techniques.
