Elementary carving patterns

Decorating the surfaces of wooden structures with chip carving technique is a fine craft and hobby, and as a result a wooden structure or item of an old-fashioned and attractive appearance is obtained. Every woodcut procedure requires you first to design a quality pattern and transfer it to your workpiece. In order to help you design the patterns, here we present to you a collection of 6 basic repeating chip carving patterns that come from an old book titled “Inventive drawing: practical development of elementary design” (Author: Edward Ball, Published: 1864). All of them are repeating patterns, i. e., they consist of one basic design element that is repeated. With these patterns you can decorate wood surfaces of various sizes and shapes. Ah, and one more thing - they are very easy to carve!