Engravers use a hardened steel tool called a burin, or graver, to cut the design into the surface, most traditionally a copper plate. However, modern hand engraving artists use burins or gra… 展开

For the printing process, see intaglio (printmaking). See also Steel engraving and line engraving The first evidence for hominids engraving patterns is a chiselled shell, dating bac… 展开

Examples of contemporary uses for engraving include creating text on jewellery, such as pendants or on the inside of engagement- and wedding rings to include text such as the … 展开

In traditional engraving, which is a purely linear medium, the impression of half-tones was created by making many very thin parallel lines, a technique called hatching. When two sets o… 展开