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	Scrimshaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scrimshaw is the name given to handiwork created by whalers made from the byproducts of harvesting marine mammals.
		The development of scrimshaw took off after the market for whale teeth, which was sought by Chinese traders for use in the Pacific Islands (for example the Fijian market for tabua), was flooded with teeth after a narrative by an American sailor, Captain David Porter, revealed both the market and the source of the teeth.
		Scrimshaw was a highly variable medium, used to produce both practical pieces, such as hand tools, toys and kitchen utensils, and highly decorative pieces, which were purely ornamental.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scrimshaw (579 words)

	Chapter 3: H.Scrimshaw and the Ship Painters and Dockers Union
		Scrimshaw in reply stated that if he had done any wrong he was sorry for it and was quite ready to apologise and let the matter drop.
		Scrimshaw declared that the matter should be put to the meeting on the basis of those supporting the motion voting Yes and those for the amendment voting No. Before it could be put to a vote, an argument arose as to whether the Vice President, E.Talbot, was permitted to move such a motion.
		Scrimshaw was nominated and objection was taken to his nomination by reason of the decision to remove him from all official positions, but the President stated "that it laid with the members to elect him or not".
	www.takver.com /history/myunion/myunion03f.htm (1981 words)

	Scrimshaw at SPRI
		Scrimshaw is the name given to the wide variety of objects made or decorated by people involved with the whaling industry, and also to the process of making them.
		Scrimshaw was an occupational pastime, the earliest examples made of baleen (whalebone) from Arctic whaling in the 17th century, but it continued in an almost unbroken tradition through Antarctic whaling in the present century.
		Although their names are as yet unknown, examples of the work several of the artists represented in the SPRI collection have been identified in museums and private collections in the USA and Australia, from a careful study of the style of decoration and the engraving technique used.
	www.spri.cam.ac.uk /~jw129/scrimshaw.html (2021 words)

	scrimshaw.htm
		Scrimshaw, the painstaking etching on ivory or bone, is one of the very few indigenous American crafts.
		Scrimshaw is a term applied to carved or pierced bone or ivory.
		The camera scrimshawed on the bolo is the exact model that the photographer uses.
	home.cogeco.ca /~sheppard/scrimshaw.htm (972 words)

	The History of Scrimshaw
		Scrimshaw is an art form that is considered by some to be the only art form that originated in America, since the art of Scrimshaw was first practiced by sailors working on whaling ships out of New England.
		The word Scrimshaw actually came from a slang expression that was used to refer to anything that was the product of a seaman's idle time, or items that were produced while engaged in the act of loafing.
		Scrimshaw was most popular in the early 1800's, when the whaling industry was at its peak.
	www.hopscrimshaw.com /about/scrimhistory.htm (776 words)

	Scrimshaw Studio - Fine Art, Sculpture, Jewelry In Fossil Ivory
		Scrimshaw is the oldest of the very few art forms that are native to North America.
		Scrimshaw is not an art form for the impatient.
		Jim is the master scrimshaw and ivory craftsman for Fenton, the international jewelry design studio based in New York City, and he also teaches the art of scrimshaw at Trinidad State College in Colorado.
	www.scrimshawstudio.com (744 words)

	Scrimshaw
		Scrimshaw is the name given to carved or etched items made from whalebone, whales’ teeth, or from other bone-like material such as deer antlers, shells and walrus tusks.
		An example of Scrimshaw held in the library’s archives is a plaque commemorating a voyage of the “Pacific”, a Hobart based whaler.
		When creating a piece of scrimshaw, the sailor who was making the item, known as a Scrimshander, first needed to prepare the surface by tracing or “pricking” the design on the bone and then covering it with ink or soot from the ship’s lamps.
	www.abc.net.au /treasurehunt/s983442.htm (694 words)

	Scrimshaw Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scrimshaw, also known as "tramp art" along the Eastern Seaboard, is one of the few remaining American folk arts that has managed to develop into popular, contemporary art.
		Scrimshaw is an art form that whale hunters with plenty of spare time on their hands developed.
		Scrimshaw is recognized as legitimate art since it is constantly being reinvented by today’s artists, who bring their own unique flavor to an art that refuses to fade into the past.
	www.ivoryjacks.com /pages/scrimsh.html (555 words)

	Lahaina Scrimshaw, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, Jessica, Howard, Konrad
		Scrimshaw is an art form whalemen developed by carving designs on whalebone, whale teeth, and baleen (strips of keratin - a substance in nails, hair, horns, and hoofs - found in the mouths of baleen whales instead of teeth), to fill the long hours of enforced idleness between whale hunts.
		Although, most scrimshaw pieces were intended as homecoming presents for loved ones, a whaleman might occasionally sell his work in a foreign port, if he needed cash.
		Exotic materials: Most scrimshaw was carved on whale teeth and baleen, but the term also includes designs on coconuts, elephant tusks, hippopotamus teeth, sea shells, tortoise shells, and other materials the whalemen encountered at sea or in ports of call.
	www.lahainascrimshaw.com /history.html (2739 words)

	The Scrimshaw Studio - Reasons Behind Collector's Value
		Collecting fine art scrimshaw is a passion for some, and it is they who ultimately set the Collector's Value in the world of scrimshaw.
		Works of scrimshaw with investment value are executed by a single artist whose style is recognizeable throughout a piece.
		Scrimshaw that is mass-produced in a workshop environment is of little interest to serious collectors.
	www.scrimshawstudio.com /values.html (1050 words)

	The WebShander - Custom Scrimshaw
		We specialize in hand-etched scrimshaw on natural materials such as mammoth ivory, walrus teeth, piano-key ivory and shed antler.
		We also make many of the accessory items and objects on which the scrimshaw is mounted: hand mirrors, jewelry and music boxes, wooden parts of desk accessories and more.
		We do not use a machine engraver for our scrimshaw; instead, it is etched with a steel tool and the color is hand-rubbed into the fine lines and dots.
	www.scrimshaw.net (349 words)

	Scrimshaw Gallery :: Online Gallery - Scrimshaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scrimshaw is the art of fashioning objects from or engraving pictures on bone or ivory.
		Its roots can be traced back to the 17th century Dutch whalers, but scrimshaw, as it is known today, began with the American whalemen of the 19th century.
		With the passing of the Yankee whaling industry, scrimshaw went into decline, with few practitioners, until John Kennedy was elected President and the public became aware of his scrimshaw collection.
	www.scrimshawgallery.com /gallery/scrimshaw.shtml (399 words)

	Scrimshaw by Lorne Scoggins
		Scrimshaw is one of the few art forms which is truly indigenous to America.
		He is the first scrimshander to successfully create scrimshaw in the style of the Trompe l'oeil school.
		Whether it be pencil, pastel or scrimshaw, his work is nearly photographic but each piece has a personality all of it's own and shows the heart he puts into them.
	www.thescrimshawartist.com (445 words)

	What is Scrimshaw?
		The origin of the word is obscure; one interesting etymology is a Dutch phrase meaning "to waste one's time!" The term "scrimshaw" also applies to carved or pierced bone or ivory, since much of the whalemen's work was carved rather than etched.
		Keep your scrimshaw out of bright sun; this dries and cracks the ivory and may fade certain colored inks.
		I use a light coat of warm beeswax rubbed into the ivory to preserve the scrimshaw and keep the ivory from drying and aging too fast.
	www.scrimshaw.net /info.htm (1009 words)

	Kentucky Derby 129 \| 2003 \| Derby Coverage \| Derby Entrants \| Scrimshaw \|
		SCRIMSHAW won the Lexington stakes and immediately commissioned two weeks of comparisons to Charismatic and Proud Citizen, who both parlayed good Lexington runs into Derby paychecks for D. Wayne Lukas.
		Scrimshaw is out of the Sham mare Rogue Girl, who has three foals that have made it to the races, all of which have won including Srcimshaw's half-sister Classic Ingrid, who was second in the restricted La Prevoyante Stakes in Canada.
		Scrimshaw is a son of Gulch, the sire of 1995 Kentucky Derby winner Thunder Gulch (also conditioned by D. Wayne Lukas), and he has a classy distaff family peppered with sprint and route stakes winners.
	www.kentuckyderby.com /2003/derby_coverage/derby_entrants/scrimshaw (543 words)

	The Penniman House --Visual 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scrimshaw is the sailors' art of carving and inking drawings on whale teeth or bone.
		Sailors used a variety of tools and inks to create scrimshaw, but typically they used their pocketknives to carve the pictures, and then rubbed in ink, tobacco juice, or charcoal to color them.
		Pretend you are one of the whalers depicted on the scrimshaw.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/112penniman/112visual3.htm (236 words)

	New Bedford Whaling Museum \| Research
		The origin and etymology of the term scrimshaw is unknown and has been disputed, but various forms of it – such as scrimsshander, skrimshonting, and skrimshank – began to appear in American whalemen’s parlance in the early 19th century.
		As applied to scrimshaw, baleen tends to be sinewy, brittle, and in many ways difficult to work; it is also vulnerable to larvae parasites.
		The scrimshaw itself was produced in large measure with the artist’s mind fixed on the people back home, not only as the intended recipients of scrimshaw gifts, but also as the beneficiaries of his newly-acquired sailors’ vision of the wide world.
	www.whalingmuseum.org /kendall/amwhale/am_scrim.html (1468 words)

	FAQ's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is the indigenous art form of the American Whaleman, who, in his idle hours cruising for whales, devoted himself to fashioning articles and jewelry from the scrap teeth and bone onboard.
		Today, special scribes made of tungsten carbide, and even high speed (dental) drills and (in industrial manufacture of scrimshaw) lasers are employed.
		In the late eighteen hundreds up through World War II this ivory nut was used to make some of the finest buttons in the clothing industry.
	www.scrimshaw.com /id2.html (618 words)

	Scrimshaw - Introduction
		Scrimshaw is the art of etching images onto polished ivory using a sharp needle clamped into a pin vise.
		Scrimshaw was born in the golden age of whaling during the 18th and 19th centuries.
		Some of scrimshaw those sailors produced were very elaborate and can be viewed in museums.
	www.davidadamsonline.com /scrimshaw.htm (394 words)

	Scrimshaw Artist Keeps Etching Tradition Alive
		He calls himself a "scrimshawer," a practitioner of an art practiced for centuries that can produce pieces of exquisite beauty.
		As top scrimshaw sailors improved their work, they became prized members of whaling crews, with ship captains claiming some of the artwork in exchange for raw ivory.
		The growing popularity of scrimshaw, coupled with the killing of whales, elephants and other creatures for their ivory, helped bring about a 1977 international agreement restricting trade in any products from endangered species.
	www.simplysharing.com /scrimshaw.htm (763 words)

	Scrimshaw Knives & What is Scrimshaw
		Scrimshaw is the art of carving, engraving, or otherwise making pictures in ivory and is considered by some to be the only art form that originated in America, since the art of Scrimshaw was first practiced by sailors working on whaling ships out of New England.
		Today, a good example of Scrimshaw would be whittling on a stick and ending up with something that would be either decorative or even useful.
		However, the most recognized and sought after form of Scrimshaw were the ivory whales teeth that had pictures of ships and other scenes scratched in the face of them.
	www.ebladestore.com /what_is_scrimshaw.shtml (729 words)

	Antique Scrimshaw collectibles, articles and information
		Scrimshaw art is a slow and tedious process where one mistake can ruin an entire piece.
		Scrimshaw is usually defined as carving or embellishment of ivory or bone.
		Today, Scrimshaw is still practiced by master scrimshanders (the scrimshaw artist) and their work is highly sought after and collected.
	www.antiqueweb.com /articles/scrimshaw.html (680 words)

	Scrimshaw Real or Repro?
		Examples of scrimshawed whale's teeth carved by the legendary Frederick Myrick, a crewman aboard the famed whaler Susan, have sold for upwards of $40,000.
		If your scrimshaw passes the first two tests, it is time to present it to a qualified appraiser for further evaluation (contact a maritime museum for referrals).
		Several scrimshaw experts examined this tooth and believe that the work, while old and very fine, may not date as far back as the whaling era.
	home.earthlink.net /~nbrass1/scrim.htm (1948 words)

	The Golden Basket Presents Scrimshaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scrimshaw is the nautical folk art of carving objects primarily from whalebone, whale teeth, ivory, or walrus tusks, often engraved with scenes reflecting whaling life.
		A design is pricked onto the surface with a jackknife or a sail needle; the holes are connected with delicate scratches, rubbed with ink, and then polished with whale oil.
		It's not surprising that the most frequent motif for scrimshaw was the whale.
	thegoldenbasket.com /scrimshaw.htm (656 words)

	Boone Trading Company - Genuine Scrimshaw
		A gallery of fine scrimshaw on fossil walrus teeth and tusks, hippo, mammoth, warthog and elephant tusks and ivory.
		The scrimshaws shown can be modified to fit on larger or smaller pieces of any of the types of ivory that we stock or on pistol grips, knife handles or even your own ivory, which we can sand and polish and mount on a base if you desire.
		Any of the scrimshaws in these galleries can be done larger, smaller or on other types of ivory.
	www.boonetrading.com /Scrim.html (331 words)

	The Scrimshaw Brothers - Review (He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother)
		Occasionally, the Scrimshaws will have a performer stationed at the front of the theater, dressed in a tuxedo, sans bottoms, requesting that the audience check their trousers.
		And when Scrimshaw, in a frustrated rage, tears open the envelope, the two women howl simultaneously that he has disrupted the universe, and begin to spin around each other as though the universe were, indeed, collapsing in on itself.
		With the two brothers, their mother, and one wife involved, it seems that the Scrimshaws plan to involve the whole family in the act at some point.
	www.scrimshawbrothers.com /hahhmb.htm (2504 words)

	CD Baby: SCRIMSHAW: Sometimes
		Scrimshaw was formed nearly by chance, and nurtured at Bird House Studios of Baltimore, Maryland.
		Scrimshaw delivers an eclectic brand of acoustic rock, mixing elements of rock, funk, bluegrass, and celtic/world rhythms, Scrimshaw is hard to pigeonhole, yet easy to enjoy.
		Scrimshaw are Philip Lehr on lead vocals and guitar, Ryan Berg is also on guitar, Todd Hoodenpyle on bass, and Jamie does drums.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/scrimshaw (286 words)

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