One of the objects admired by Lucinda in The Captain Cook Birthplace Museum was a piece of horn decorated with scrimshaw. An art form developed from the practices of sailors on whaling ships during the mid 1700s, scrimshaw continued until the ban on commercial whaling. The practice has come to describe the process of scratching and colouring (inking) the surface of bone or bone-substitute. Lin and Laura have become novice scrimshanders. The work-in-progress display includes their first tentative experiments - some more successful than others - together with some of the tools and raw materials. Their scrimshaw has been tested on camel bone, faux ivory (plastic) and a laminated paper based material called ‘micarta’.
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Indian ink on bone
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Indian ink on bone
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Indian ink on bone
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Indian ink on bone
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Indian ink on bone, faux ivory (plastic), paper micarta
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