This book details what is needed for fret cutting and wood carving from required tools to project design and completion.
A fret is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif. Wood carving is a form of working wood by means of a cutting tool in one hand or a chisel by two hands or with one hand on a chisel and one hand on a mallet, resulting in a wooden figure or figurine, or in the sculptural ornamentation of a wooden object. The phrase may also refer to the finished product, from individual sculptures, to hand-worked mouldings composing part of a tracery.
The making of sculpture in wood has been extremely widely practiced. Some of the finest extant examples of early European wood carving are from the Middle Ages in Germany, Italy and France, where the typical themes of that era were Christian iconography. In England many complete examples remain from the 16th and 17th century, where oak was the preferred medium in this case.
