Is it a loss if the labor is more expensive than the materials? A piece of material engraving the whole process at high speed gives you the answer!

This piece of seemingly ordinary jade raw material is very cheap, only a few hundred yuan. But it's quite old.

Although the material is cheap, the owner does not want to use cheap workmanship to do a perfunctory job. The carving of the material must be delicate, neat and beautiful, and must also include hollow carving.

First of all, the shape of the material should be repaired according to the cracks and subject matter of the material.

Then the engraver draws the design

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Seeing this, you know that this kind of work is not cheap, it must cost several thousand dollars.

The ring above is already done.

Carefully crafted

Carving completed, not yet polished.

The water quality is very good, and the workmanship is so delicate, complex and excellent, the labor cost is nearly ten times more expensive than the material. The materials are more expensive than the labor, is it worth it? Lost or earned?

The work uses a variety of techniques such as hollowing, line engraving, and relief to shape the work into a dragon plaque that embodies the beauty of symmetry and antique charm, and is classical and elegant!

Jade cannot be made into a useful object without being carved. If you buy the material cheaply, you are getting a bargain. If you find a good craftsman to carve it, the value of the material will be greatly increased. Similarly, if a piece of good jade is not well crafted, the value of the material will be completely ruined. Jade, if carved, becomes a jade artifact, but if not carved it is still stone, so the value of jade depends largely on the craftsmanship.

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