Exempel på whalebone

• The rising demand for whalebone (baleen) helped to keep the whaling industry alive.

• Enterprising sailors carved whalebone to make scrimshaw gifts for mothers, sisters, and faithful sweethearts.

• Baleen whales, such as the blue whale and hump back, use their vast curtains of whalebone to sieve a living from the sea.

• He did not record the names or arrival dates of a single vessel carved into the whalebone.

• Then he told the boy to bring in scrapings of whalebone.

• To this must be added the whalebone and guano worth at least £60,000.

• There are those creatures which constitute the plankton, upon which subsist mackerel, herring, tunny and the large whalebone whale.

• Other forms of scrimshaw included whalebone fids (rope splicer), bodkins (needle), swifts (yarn holding equipment) and sailors' canes.

• In many cases its armour plates were replaced with scales of metal, leather or whalebone laced together with silk or leather cords.

• The whalebones, remnants of aboriginal whaling by the islanders, are big enough to work as elements like stair railings.

• To increase rigidity, they were reinforced with many strips of whalebone, cording, or pieces of leather.

• By the 1830s, women had started to wear petticoats with hoops of whalebone or cane inside the hem.

• To pass the time, some sailors used the leftover whalebone to make homecoming gifts for their friends and loved ones.

• The crinolines were made of whalebone and were covered with layers of flounced petticoats.

• Steel and baleen (whalebone) were the dominant materials for boning and were occasionally used together.

• These first kayaks were constructed from stitched seal or other animal skins stretched over a wood or whalebone-skeleton frame.

• Being compelled by his health to return home, he then amused himself with making a clock having wooden wheels and a whalebone spring.

• It is typically powered by a wound spring made of whalebone, and the actions are controlled by a set of cams and levers.