Noblie Expands Scrimshaw Knives Collection With Hand-Etched Collector Designs and Functional Builds

Scrimshaw is known for detailed imagery—portraits, wildlife, nautical scenes, and ornamental compositions—cut or etched into ...
WBUR

Not your grandfather’s scrimshaw: Duke Riley engraves pollution scenes on ocean plastic

The New Bedford Whaling Museum’s scrimshaw collection, which includes hundreds of whalebone clocks, pie crimpers, musical instruments, canes and umbrellas, is advertised as the largest of its kind in ...
Iowa Public Radio

A New York artist has a unique take on the art of carving and engraving on whale bone

A museum in Massachusetts has the largest scrimshaw collection in the world. Scrimshaw is artwork made from the bones of marine mammals. But this year, the gallery acquired a piece by an artist who ...
Hyperallergic

The Wider World and Scrimshaw

On Tuesday, March 28, the daylong symposium The Wider World and Scrimshaw will be held in-person at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, with an option for virtual attendance. Renowned and emerging ...
Bow Doin Polar Bears

Scrimshaw: Selections from the Peter C. Barnard Collection

A new exhibit highlighting the art of scrimshaw is now open at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College. “Scrimshaw: Selections from the Peter C. Barnard Collection” can be viewed in the ...
The Roanoke Times

Virginia Military Institute displays rare scrimshaw collection

LEXINGTON – A collection of engraved and carved whale teeth and bones – scrimshaw – is now on display in the Kohen Gallery on the 100 level of the Virginia Military Institute Museum. Received by the ...
Wicked Local

Scrimshaw a pictorial snapshot of maritime heritage

Long before there were portable electronic screens to create with and be entertained by, there were much simpler ways to occupy long periods of time. Some of these simpler ways grew to be quite ...