Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process or art of producing designs on wood, leather, or other materials by using heated tools or a fine flame.
- noun A design made by this process.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A method of reproducing a design or an inscription on wood by the application under pressure of heated metallic plates or cylinders, the surfaces or peripheries of which bear dies or matrices in relief.
- noun The process of burning a design or inscription on wood, leather, or other substance by means of a heated point which is held or guided by the hand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A process of printing, ornamenting, or carving, by burning with heated instruments. One variant is
wood burning .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the art of
decorating wood orleather byburning designs into its surface with the tip of a heated tool - noun a
decoration so produced
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of producing drawings on wood or leather by using heated tools or a fine flame
Etymologies
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Examples
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From naturalism one had passed to domestic pyrography and the the excursionist kodak.
[Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade greenintegerblog 2008
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She has 22 strings and lovely handcrafting by Dwayne Glanton, including this lovely pyrography of flowers:
New Harp! K. A. Laity 2005
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She has 22 strings and lovely handcrafting by Dwayne Glanton, including this lovely pyrography of flowers:
Archive 2005-01-01 K. A. Laity 2005
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"What a creative way to show your need for attention." pyrography [1900-05]
Futures Imperfect Willis, Connie 1994
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In the second were displayed china painting, pyrography, and paintings in oil, water color, and pastel, all by Missouri women.
Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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The pyrography outfit was produced, and for fifteen minutes Prince
Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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Have some one of your friends bring you a chair, a table and an old pyrography outfit, together with some book-ends on which to burn a design.
Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917
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If the mallet hit the chisel so vigorously as to spoil a part of the pattern, its wielder was wiser next time; and the experimenters in pyrography soon learned that a red-hot needle used indiscreetly can dig holes in leather instead of ornamenting it.
For the Sake of the School Angela Brazil 1907
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It was bound in soft gray kid, and on the back Betty had burned in old English letters, with her pyrography-needle, the motto of Warwick Hall: "I keep the tryst."
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The multitude of indifferently executed small articles which followed the introduction of pyrography is beginning to disappear, people are considering the art more seriously and applying it to more dignified uses.
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Jules-Emile Zingg, who exhibited regularly in respected shows; Fernand Pinal, who showed regularly with the Société des Indépendants; Louis-Ernest Lessieux, who experimented with pyrography---burning elaborate designs into wood.
Provenance research | Paul Gauguin | Stephanie A. Brown 2023
edwardvielmetti commented on the word pyrography
Pyrography is the art of decorating wood or other materials with burn marks resulting from the controlled application of a heated object. (wikipedia)
October 23, 2007