7 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCRIMSHONER»
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scrimshoner in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History
This medallion, designed by Josiah Wedgwood in 1787, was later adopted as the
official seal of the Anti-Slavery Society of London. It has been suggested that the
scrimshoner could have been a New England whaler serving in the Union navy ...
Anita Zaleski Weinraub, 2006
2
Weird and Wonderful Words
The masculine term is scrimshander; another term in use (or as much use as it
can hope to get) is scrimshoner, and the process of making scrimshaw can be
called scrimshonting. The origin of the word isn't known, but it may have come
from ...
Erin McKean, Roz Chast, 2002
Scrimshander and Scrimshoner are variations of the word. In the more leisurely
days of sail, particularly among the whalers, all kinds of articles and fancy work
were made from the teeth and bone from the whale, such as miniature figures, ...
Scrimshaw, Dr. Carson Ritchie, Little Craft Book series; Ward Lock, £1.05. It
sounds like one of the words on that television game; and "Scrimshoner", which
is someone who practises scrimshaw, is even better. The term actually means
carving ...
The range of articles made by the scrimshoner follows close on that of the
professional whalebone carver or whale ivory carver. Just as the clenched fist
stick head so popular with scrimshaw artists can be paralleled by examples
made by the ...
Carson I. A. Ritchie, 1972
He uses 'scrimshoner' to describe the scrimshaw worker. Barbeau (see below)
gives us a number of references to American log books of the 1880s which
demonstrate that scrimshaw had by then become established as the 'correct' form
.
Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, 1991
One who practices the craft is called a Scrimshander, Scrimshandy, or
Scrimshoner. Whatever the origin of the name, scrimshaw is recognized
throughout the world today as an authentic American folkart. l Scrimshaw
became popular with ...
