These five images show the chisels and the process of carving this ubiquitous and beautiful design of the Ct. River Valley. There are no rosettes on the original owned by the late Nina Fletcher Little, but, I couldn't help myself. The picture on the left shows the rosette mostly done, now I"ll use a very shallow sweep to clean up the outside edge of the circle and remove as many rough gouge marks as possible. There is no sanding on these rosettes, they were all just carved. >