Scrimshaw is a craft. It is sort of an American folk art that is both unique and beautiful. For those who do not know what it is, scrimshaw is art performed on the “canvas” of marine animals. The ...

A bill is winding its way through the Massachusetts Legislature to stop the importation of and trade in illegal ivory. If passed in its current form, the bill could render all scrimshaw and ivory ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Generally carved from sperm whales ...

A new exhibition is looking at the traditional art form of scrimshaw through a wider context and contemporary lens. "The Wider World and Scrimshaw” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts ...

Scrimshaw artist Brian Kiracofe on the art of engraving on ivory and bone. Scrimshaw dates back to the late 17th century when whalers who were out on a long voyage would engrave on ivory and bone ...

FAIRBANKS — The art of scrimshaw — carving and painting on ivory — dates back to the mid-1700s and the whalers roaming the seas at that time. These stout souls used whale’s teeth, baleen, walrus tusks ...

NEW BEDFORD — Scrimshank. Scrimshander. Scrimshant. Scrimshone. They’re all alternative words for scrimshaw, and they all — including scrimshaw — derive from seafaring slang. Herman Melville wrote of ...