If you've ever visited a maritime or nautical museum, you've probably seen examples of scrimshaw, artwork that's made by engraving designs and pictures in a piece of whalebone.
To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines.
Noun
a carving (or engraving) on whalebone, whale ivory, walrus tusk, etc., usually by American whalers
v. t.
To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving,
and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines.
n.
A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is
scrimshawed.
Scrimshaw
Scrimshaw
To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines.
A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed.
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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