John Larkum leans over a slab of slate, striking a metal chisel with a brass-capped mallet. Tinny pings ring out as he sinks his tool into the soft, inky stone. Larkum is painstakingly creating ...

Artist Ra Paulette has spent decades hand-carving intricate caves, shrines, and caverns in the sandstone hills near Ojo Caliente, New Mexico. A photo posted by Colby Moore (@colbyshootspeople) Apr 30, ...

In this April 18, 2019, photo, Cheung Shun-king, 65-year-old mahjong game tile maker, poses with his tiles in his shop in Kowloon’s old neighborhood of Hong Kong. Hand-carved mahjong tiles is a dying ...

ERIKA: HERE IN LOWELL, THIS FORMER TEXTILE MILL IS HOME TO DOZENS OF ARTIST STUDIOS. IT'S WHERE JOHN WELCH WORKS ALOAN IN AN AIRY WORKSHOP. JOHN FRANCIS DESIGNS ISIS H CREATION AND HIS PASSION. >> ...

This Halloween-inspired display has attracted thousands of visitors. Two towns tucked away in West Virginia are aglow with Halloween spirit! Every October, 3,000 hand-carved pumpkins are displayed ...

So you want to own an underground, hand-carved cave? In Embudo, New Mexico, a region bordering the Rio Grande River and the Carson National Forest, 67-year-old Ra Paulette has spent the last 25 years ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Just opposite the entrance to a neon-lit night market, one of Hong Kong's few remaining carvers of mahjong tiles engraves the two Chinese characters for the number 8,000 on a piece of ...