What Is Hand Engraving?

Carving, in sculpture, refers to cutting or carving wood, stone, or other materials into the desired shape. The tools that serve this purpose are knives, chisels, round chisels, cones, flat axes and hammers. In the most common sculpting method, a chisel is held in one hand and a mallet is held in the other, and the chisel is then knocked into the wood or stone with the mallet. Although some metalworking techniques, such as welding and assembly, have become increasingly important over the past century, carving and molding are still the two main sculptural techniques. A carved work can be called a sculpture, but the term sculpture is often used to refer to a work that has a serious artistic or aesthetic meaning. ^[1]

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A variety of sculpture crafts with a long history and skill, such as

The Chinese famous tooth carving process has a history of thousands of years. It was discovered as early as the Longshan period.

Simple dental carving products. The entire carved ivory of the Shang Dynasty and the "drilling" caliper of the Tang Dynasty have reached a very high level of craftsmanship. China's tooth carvings are finely crafted, exquisite, and extremely decorative. The style of tooth color is different from place to place.

Traditional carving is the use of knives, axes and other tools to create art on wood, stone and other base materials by hand. Modern engraving can be divided into chemical etching, electric etching, hand engraving, laser engraving, mark engraving, mechanical engraving, roll engraving, etc. according to the different tools and methods.

What is laser engraving?

With laser engraving and cutting, the process is as simple as printing on paper using a computer and printer. You can use multiple graphics processing software, such as CorelDraw, to design under Win98 / Win2000 / WinXP. Scanned graphics, vectorized graphics, and various CAD files can be easily "printed" to

It mainly refers to some handicrafts carved from sludge, peach kernel, coal essence, gourd, horns, coconut shell, camel bone and other raw materials. It has strong folk style and local characteristics.

The Shoushan stone carvings, together with Fuzhou's born lacquerware and cork paintings, are collectively called "Three Rongchengs". Shoushan stone carving is a traditional folk carving art. Using Shoushan stone produced in Beifeng, a mountainous area in northern Fuzhou as a material, special sculptures are used to make small sculptures for people to enjoy. Shoushan stone carving pays great attention to the shape of the stone, so there is a saying that "one is equal to nine workers."

Shoushan Stone Carving

Shoushan stone is rich in stone quality, stone color, stone shape, and stone texture. It is moist and shiny, with a wide variety, and hardness is between 2.5 and 2.7 moles. The characteristics of condensing are called "stone emperor" and "after the stone" by the people, and they say "precious stone and cheap jade".

The appearance of Shoushan stone sculptures with independent shapes has a history of 1500 years. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Shoushan Stone Mine was mined. After the development of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the independent Shoushan stone carving industry finally formed. During the Tongzhi and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty, the Shoushan stone carving formed its own unique style, with two major schools: the East Gate and the West Gate.

Shoushan stone carving techniques are rich and varied, exquisite and well-rounded. In the course of development, they are widely used, combining Chinese painting and various folk crafts carving techniques and artistic essence. Its techniques mainly include round carving, Indian button carving, thin Italian carving, hollow carving, bas-relief, high relief, mosaic carving, chain carving, seal carving and micro carving. Shoushan stone carvings have a wide range of subjects, including characters, animals, landscapes, flowers and birds. Because of these reasons, the social influence of Shoushan Stone Carving is extremely wide, with the artistic charm of "the best companion of the emperor, the literati and the literati, and the people", and it has been well received by connoisseurs and collectors at home and abroad.

The Shoushan Stone Carving has a prominent position in the traditional Chinese jade culture, and the related carvings have become a symbol of elegance, exquisiteness, dignity and wisdom.