Foreigners can't learn these basic jade carving techniques

As we all know, jade has become a hot commodity in the jewelry industry recently.

A good jadeite is inseparable from excellent jadeite carving, and good carving can fully display the beauty of jadeite.

Well, today I will tell you some basic techniques of jade carving.

Relief

Relief, as the name suggests, is the carving process on the flat surface of jade.

The carved image will "float" from the plane, giving people a sense of prominence.

The high relief that people usually talk about refers to the image that "floats" high on the surface, while the shallow relief is the opposite.

Their only viewing side is usually the front.

Therefore, relief is actually a carving technique that carves out convex and concave images on the flat surface of jade.

Openwork

Openwork carving is also called hollow carving. Openwork carving is a special craft.

Pay attention to carving, hollowing out, and hollowing out, deliberately removing the virtual parts other than the image

It gives jade a transparent and lively sense of space. And it is more delicate and exquisite.

Round Sculpture

Round sculpture, also known as three-dimensional sculpture, is the most difficult type of sculpture because it has three-dimensional space.

The sculptor needs to carve from all directions: front, back, left, right, top, middle and bottom.

So that the viewer can see all aspects of the jade

Jade works carved in the round are quite vivid and lifelike, so the selection of jade for round carving is very strict.

From length to width to thickness, everything must be in appropriate proportion to the real object, and then the carvers will "make the blank" according to the proportion.

The purpose of "beating the blank" is to ensure that all parts of the sculpture meet the proportion requirements, and then carve out a vivid and lifelike work.

The above are some basic techniques of jade carving