Cheryl Konrad has spent the last 35 years educating visitors to her Lahaina, Hawaii, store about the centuries-old history of scrimshaw. Konrad fills the shelves in Lahaina Scrimshaw with the etchings ...

A bill is winding its way through the Massachusetts Legislature to stop the importation of and trade in illegal ivory. If passed in its current form, the bill could render all scrimshaw and ivory ...

Ebony and ivory aren’t just found on a keyboard. They make a powerful combination when merged together in a unique artform called scrimshaw. A Harris County man has perfected the art. On the surface ...

Scrimshaw artist Brian Kiracofe on the art of engraving on ivory and bone. Scrimshaw dates back to the late 17th century when whalers who were out on a long voyage would engrave on ivory and bone ...

NEW BEDFORD — Legislation aimed at stopping the poaching of wild elephants in Africa would take down the historical ivory market in Massachusetts, museums, craftsmen and dealers fear. A bill before ...

The ivory on which scrimshaw artist Rick Fields carves delicate drawings is more ancient than man. On the highly polished tusk of a wooly mammoth dead for 20,000 years, he has engraved a tiny ...

A new exhibition is looking at the traditional art form of scrimshaw through a wider context and contemporary lens. "The Wider World and Scrimshaw” at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts ...

FAIRBANKS — The art of scrimshaw — carving and painting on ivory — dates back to the mid-1700s and the whalers roaming the seas at that time. These stout souls used whale’s teeth, baleen, walrus tusks ...

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. (CBS4) - A local artist who suffered a nearly catastrophic brain injury during the Vietnam War has fine-tuned his talents to create art of the most intricate detail. Jim Stevens ...

A Massachusetts scrimshaw artist was sentenced to 30 days in a county jail Monday for buying sperm whale teeth from the black market. Charles Manghis, 55, of Nantucket, was convicted last year of one ...