Stepping into the courtyard of Erxat Ibrayim’s walnut wood processing workshop in Bageqi town, a group of Uygur women sit at a long table polishing freshly carved walnut wood bowls that give off a ...

Butternut (Juglans cinera) is a tree that is more valuable for its sweet oily tasting nuts than for its lumber. In fact, the genus name “juglans” means “nut of Jupiter.” The nuts are oval shaped ...

A man works in a Walnut wood carving factory in Jammu, the winter capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, Dec. 11, 2020 (Str/Xinhua) A man works in a Walnut wood carving factory in Jammu, the winter ...

Once home to Kashmiri wood carvers, the trend for such wood art is declining in the city. Kashmiri wood art was loved by Rajas and Maharajas, and later on, by the British. After the partition, ...

A Kashmiri artisan displays a piece of carved walnut-wood work at a carving factory in Harnag village of Anantnag district, about 55 km south of Srinagar city, the summer capital of Indian-controlled ...

A craftsman carves figures on a walnut at his workshop in Yongqing county, Langfang, Hebei province. [Photo by Zhang Yuyu/For China Daily] Holding a black drill in his right hand like a pen, Su Jie is ...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...