SIZE OF THE CARVINGS: The stock carvings are limited by the size of the board that starts the carving process. Please be aware, that even with the oiling, the carving will eventually gray out, as any cedar will, if it is placed in direct sunlight.

The oiling process also helps to block out damaging UV rays of the sun, so our carvings can be hung outdoors. It is resistant to mold, moisture, and insects. Western Red Cedar is the species from which roofing shingles, decks, and gazeboes have traditionally been made. If you desire and request something (for example) dark, we will pull the darkest board we have, but it will not necessarily be as dark as (for example) walnut would be. If there are no others in stock, the time to shipping will be increased. What you get will depend on what we have in stock. The pictures you see here are stock photos. TA DA! Measurements may vary slightly from piece to piece. So with the piece on the board, you look at the top and follow the line to the left and look at the right side at the widest point and follow the line to the bottom and you have height by width.but wait! It's not that easy! The way this board I have is laid out, if I lined it up on the zero points it would cover up the numbers and on some pieces you wouldn't be able to see them.so, I line it up on the 1 inch marks which means when you get the numbers, you have to subtract 1 inch. The quilting board, at its simplest, is a one inch grid. SIZE: One picture has the piece on a quilting board, lined up on the 1 inch marks.

They are finished with Clear Danish Oil to seal the piece, bringing out the grain and the color. The next 2 sandings with 120 then 220 grit finishes the smoothing and polishing. The 80 grit sanding is the final phase of the carving process, removing the nicks and gouges from the carving tools, and finishes the shaping of the weave. Carving is done with rotary shaft tools and disc grinders. We cut the 2 dimensional blanks with scroll and jig saws (double-sized custom orders have to be cut with jigsaw). All work is done with our hands and eyes… While we use power tools (Scroll Saw, Rotary shaft Tool, handheld detail sanders etc.), we use no laser’s, CNC machines or computer operated cutting machines. Each carving begins as a 1 X 12 inch cedar board. THE CARVING: Our carvings are single pieces of western red cedar, designed and carved to be wall hangings. Here, the 3 Worlds (Heaven, Earth and Living Creatures) and the dynamic interaction among these worlds is represented. The white symbolizes delusion and black represents enlightenment.MEANING: This interpretation of the Newgrange Spiral incorporates the Yin/Yang symbol of balance of two polar energies. This symbol can be traced to around 1000 AD, during the Sung Dynasty, when a Confucian cosmological philosopher called Chou Tun-yi (Zhou. Diagram ADevelopment of the Tai Chi Symbol. Previous ArticleTriple Tomoe and Related Threefold Symbols. Meanwhile, Yang is associated with masculinity, sin, fire, sky, and daytime and is considered aggressive, hot, hard and dry. The Tai Chi or yin-yang symbol must surely be one of the most recognised symbols in the world. Yin is associated with femininity, earth, water, moon and nighttime and is considered passive, cold, soft, yielding and wet. The dark or shady side represents Yin, and the white or sunny side represents Yang. These seemingly opposing, but complementary halves make a whole and thus, are incomplete without each other. Each figure contains a part of the other so that there is a black dot in the white half of the circle and a white dot in the black portion. The Taijitu symbol consists of two (one black and one white) swirling ‘teardrop’ shapes that fit within each other to form a perfect circle. The term means a ‘diagram of the supreme ultimate,’ and it refers to the famous Chinese concept of yin and yang, of opposites existing in complete harmony. Taijitu is a symbol representing the religious and philosophical tradition of Taoism (also called Daoism).

Triple yin and yang symbol