Since at least the 17th century, men have carved wooden spoons with motifs relating to love to give to their partners. The symbols evolved from simple ... passed the time by making scrimshaw—the folk ...

Since at least the 17th century, men have carved wooden spoons with motifs relating to love to give to their partners. The symbols evolved ... the time by making scrimshaw—the folk art of ...

Primarily a way of eking out the hours, scrimshaw finds its closest cousins ... Evans died in 1895, on the threshold of a new century that would usher in new sources of fuel that would make ...