From a hard stone to a famous artifact | Revealing the secrets of jade carving

"If jade is not cut and polished, it will not become a useful object." After the jadeite raw stone is mined from the mine, it has to be transported to a jade carving studio to be cut and carved before it can become a treasure. Although jade carving is a technical job, the whole process is not complicated. Let’s take a look at how a jade carver works!

Jade is very valuable, but the place where it is processed is not a comfortable place. The processing machines make constant noise and the powder can never be wiped off. Being a jade carver is a job that requires patience and carefulness. One has to work with machines and communicate with jade, and only by possessing the spirit of a craftsman can one do a good job.

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Not every inch of the cut jade is perfect. The jade carver sprinkles water on the jade slices and illuminates them with a strong flashlight to carefully find cracks and impurities.

This piece of material has many obvious large cracks, which divide the jade into several areas.

This piece of material also had a large crack, but the center part was intact and a pair of beautiful bracelets were taken out.

Determine the location of the material

Full consideration is given to the influence of cracks and impurities, and the principle of maximizing the utilization of raw materials is adopted, and drawing tools are used to draw the material collection locations.

This piece of violet material is used to mark the position of the bracelet, with the circles tangent to each other and the size of the circle opening marked. This piece of material can be made into so many violet bracelets, it is very precious.

This piece of ice-type green material is designed to make beads. Except for a little distance left at the edges, the whole thing is filled with circles that are tangent to each other, so a bracelet or necklace can be made with each bead of consistent quality.

This piece of ice-type green material can be made into two bracelets. The upper bracelet encircles as much green as possible and has a higher value. You can also take out a small bead from the protruding corner on the lower right.

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Special machines are needed to remove the bracelets, and the removed bracelet cores and remaining scraps can also be used to carve pendants.

Jade carving creation process

There are four steps in the jade carving process: material selection, drawing, grinding and polishing. Drawing and polishing need to be done alternately. Draw a rough drawing and polish the rough blank, then draw a fine drawing and polish the details, and repeat this several times.

A piece of irregular scrap is designed into a ring and a gourd. The ring is taken out by machine, and the ring and gourd blanks are grinded into shape and finally polished.

This is the entire process of jade carving creation. It pays attention to the use of art in accordance with the material and the selection of workmanship according to the material. It not only enhances the value of jade, but also carries the spirit of craftsmanship.

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