pyrography
woodburning

But others incorporate color and pyrography into their relief carvings.

Traditional pyrography can be performed using any heated metal implement.

Modern pyrography machines exist, and can be divided into two main categories.

Leather can be decorated by a variety of methods, including pyrography and beading.

Pyrography is also applied to leather items, using the same hot-iron technique.

Less common uses include pyrography (burning designs into wood) and plastic welding.

His love of portrait painting and exposure to early French pyrography, led to his interest in this art form.

It is also the basis of pyrography.

She does pyrography, too.

But in recent years, many artists use turned pieces as a canvas for carving, pyrography, gold leaf work, inlay, stain and painting.

It features two naves and retains an altar in wood marquetry and pyrography.

Wood burning (pyrography)

The first piece, "Pyrography," could be an outtake from "A Boy's Own Story."

It can be practiced using specialized modern pyrography tools, or using a metal implement heated in a fire, or even sunlight concentrated with a magnifying lens.

Pyrography is also popular among gourd crafters and artists, where designs are burned onto the exterior of a dried hard-shell gourd, usually with dramatic results.

Korean bamboo pyrography, as represented in the work of Kim Gi-chan in this unique artwork involved with burning patterns and art on circular bamboo containers.

His girlfriend at the time, (now his wife) Chloé did a pyrography (woodburning) design of the Aztec Calendar for him on his bass guitar.

Arthur Grinnell (1854-1924), of New Bedford, Mass., worked in pyrography (wood-burning) to create boxes and frames with multicolored stains and landscapes.

Pyrography or pyrogravure is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object such as a poker.

Pyrography is a traditional folk art in many parts of Europe, including Romania, Hungary and Flanders, as well as Argentina and other areas in South America.

Specialist vegetable-tanned leather must be used for pyrography (as modern tanning methods leave chemicals in the leather which are toxic when burned), typically in light colours for good contrast.

For a look at what's coming on strong in collectibles, the Triple Pier Expo will display almost every conceivable category, from traditional antiques to the "lost" art of pyrography (burnt wood furniture and accessories).

There, four of his workers were engaged in what he called "pyrography"-using Excalibre wood-burning pens (they're normally for decorating duck decoys) to singe onto large plywood boards the delicate curlicues of an illuminated manuscript.

RICHARD AND CAROLE SMYTH, antiques dealers, first discovered pyrography, a Victorian decorating technique, at the Brimfield, Mass., antiques shows 20 years ago.

He created three known pyrographic portraits of European ladies together with a pyrographically decorated oak blanket chest, inscribed on the lid: "This chest decorated in pyrography by me Charles H.F. Turner for my grand daughter Elise 1901".