"Ship Navigator" Carving Work !

Hello Sailors !

Here i've got two videos that me would like to share.

First video is Papaya Carving video that been made by our Ship Navigator, Saiyidah Nabilah.
Please give applause to her. *applause*

Let see her first video carving .

And this is her second video . Watermelon Carving .

Nice isn't it ? That's our group video carving.

Fruit carving from Captain and 2nd Command will be done later.

Thanks for your time sailors. Aye Aye Captain ! 

Tips & Tools

Hello Sailors !


In butter sculpture artwork, you will really need the tools also the tips to make that your artwork will look awesome.


This are the tips from our search:

Tip 1: Work in a cool place (because you don't want the butter melt)

Tip 2: Keep your hands very cold when working with butter


The equipment that must have:

R Butter

R Knife

R  Ice Water

R Sculpting Tools

R Cool Room

optional tools:

R Food Colouring

R Base with Framework

This is the sculpting tools

That's all for the Tips & Tools. Thanks for your time sailors. Aye Aye Captain !

How to Make a Butter Sculpture

Hello again Sailors !


Here I've got a video about butter sculpture. Let's learn how to sculpt butter in this Howcast video. Please enjoy the video.

Thanks for your 2 minutes and 59 seconds sailors. :) Aye Aye Captain !

Steps for Butter Sculpture

Hello sailors !

Everything we do we need steps. In butter sculpting also have a steps to make a smooth and nice butter sculpture. 

These are the steps:

Step 1: Purchase enough 100 percent butter to create the sculpture you have in mind.

Step 2: Create a wood or wire frame and attach it to a base if you plan on making a large butter carving or smaller carvings can be made of solid.

Step 3: Soak the butter in ice water for roughly 10 minutes. Numb your hands in ice water to prevent the butter from melting when you're working with it.

Step 4: Remove butter from ice water and knead together to remove air bubbles.

Step 5: Attach butter to the base if you made one. If not, simply shape the butter into a vague representation of whatever final product you're envisioning.

Step 6: Use the tip of a sharp knife to carefully carve out sections of unwanted butter. If you make a mistake, firmly re-attach a piece of butter over the error and try again.

Step 7: Place in the freezer once complete to keep your butter carving from melting.

When you follow all the steps, you will surprise that your butter sculpture work will be great like this ! 

Who knows right ? :)

Thanks for your time sailors. Aye Aye Captain !

The Beginning of Butter Sculpture

Hello Sailors ! 

Everything has their own history as well as the butter sculpture. This is history about the butter sculpture that we would like to share will all of you. This story begins like this . . . .


The History of carving food into sculptured objects is ancient. Archaeologists have found bread and pudding molds of animal and human shapes at sites from Babylon to Roman Britain. Butter sculpture is an ancient Tibetan Buddhist tradition, yak butter and dye are still used to create temporary symbols for the Tibetan New Year and other religious celebrations.

During the Renaissance and Baroque periods modling food was commonly done for wealthy banquets. It was during this period that the earliest known reference to a butter sculpture is found. In 1536 Bartolomeo Scappi, organized a feast composed of nine scenes elaborately carved out of food. Each carried episodically centerpieces for a banquet. Scappi mentioned several butter sculptures for the feast, including an elephant with a pancquin, a figure of hercules struggling with a lion, and a moor on a camel.

Another early reference is found in the biography of Antonio Canova (1757-1822), who said he first came to his patron's attention when as a humble kitchen boy he sculpted an impressive butter lion for a banquet. The story now thought apocyphal, though it reaffirms the existence of butter sculpture during that period.

Butter sculpting continued into the 18th century when English dairy maids molded butter pats into decorative shapes. Caroline Shawk Brooks with a butter sculpture basrelief of Columbus for the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition.

The earliest butter sculpture in the modern sense can be traced to the 1876 Centennial Exhibition where Caroline Shawk Brooks displayed her Dreaming lolanthe, a basrelief bust of a woman modeled in butter. It was kept cold with a system of layered bowls and frequent ice changes. Brooks had no formal art training but as a farmer she spent years making butter. To make the work more interesting, she began sculpting it, eventually using it as a selling point. Afterwards she studied in Paris and Florence and eventually became a professional sculptor who worked in marble, but occasionally made more butter art.

The heyday of butter sculpting was from about 1890 to 1930. During this period refrigeration became widely available and the American dairy industry began promoting butter sculpture as a way to compete againts synthetic butter substitute like Oleomargarine (margerine). Butter sculpting decreased during the Great Depression and World War II due to shortages but picked up again after the war.


Reference to all sailors -

i. Tibetan Buddhist is the form of Mahayana Buddhism that developed in Tibet and the surrounding Himalayan region beginning 7th century CE.

ii. Bartolomeo Scappi was a famous Renaissance chef.

iii. Caroline Shawk Brooks, a farmer that have been a well known sculpturer.

Thank you sailors. Hope our adventure in this ship will be greater than other ship. Aye Aye Captain !

Butter Sculpture ?

 Hello Sailors !

Here I want to tell you something. You know what, the Tibetan Buddhists are said to be the first creators of butter carvings and sculptures.

During the 19th century, state fairs in North America became meeting grounds the butter carvers and now remain a popular setting for makers and admirers. It's necessary to work in a cool place to keep your butter creation from melting.

This is the example of butter sculpture that been made for a State Fair Butter Sculpture that always been organized by many state such as New York and Ohio.

That all the butter sculpture that had been made. Till we meet again next post. Thanks for your time sailors. :)  Aye Aye Captain !

Introduction : A Little Speech

Hello and Assalamualaikum.


First of all, I would like to introduce my self. I'm Muhamad Asyraf bin Jamil as the first admin or Captain of the ship. The second and third admin is Ahmad Aqil bin A Rahim and Saiyidah Nabilah binti Hamidon. This is a blog for our assignment but I hope that this blog will continue to operate even after we graduated.


Okay, this blog is created to introduce to people about the Butter Sculpture. I would like to imagine that we are in a ship called "The Butter Ship". So it means that this blog is a ship that will tell everything about butter sculpture and anything that related to this artwork. "The Butter Ship" welcoming everyone who interested to know more about Culinary Artistry especially butter sculpture.


Hope that our adventure in this ship will be greater than other ship. Aye Aye Captain !