The practicability of wood carving crafts refers to the works of art decorated by wood carving technology and combined with practicality and art, such as palace lanterns, mirror frames, pen holders, pen holders, jewelry boxes, savings cans and furniture carving. Artistic wood carving usually refers to works with ingenious conception, profound connotation and can reflect the author's aesthetic outlook and artistic skills, which fully reflects the interest of wood carving art and the beauty of environmental friendly materials.
Wood carving crafts mainly use mahogany, pine, fir, camphor, sandalwood / sandalwood, Tung, rosewood, peach, maple, birch, elm, boxwood, nanmu and basswood as raw materials. After different processing, there are machine-made, pure manual, semi machine and semi manual, with fine workmanship, simple design, different styles, natural color, novelty and chic. It is a unique handicraft in China. Wood carving crafts not only have appreciation value, but also practical value. Wood carving crafts are the most personalized industry and the combination of culture and art.
What wood is best for carving! What is the most precious wood?
Nanmu, mahogany, red sandalwood, chicken wings, Huanghua pear, ebony, ferreous wood, ebony, sour branch wood, etc
Wood carving is a kind of carving technology using wood as material. Therefore, in wood carving creation, material selection is a very important link. In terms of wood texture, good wood is best for carving. Such as gingko, mahogany, boxwood, camphor, Huali, red sandalwood, Platycladus orientalis, Korean pine, Zhennan, yellow sandalwood, Xianghua wood, Tilia amurensis, walnut and other valuable wood. The wood properties of these tree species are very good, the texture is straight, the material is dense, the section is smooth, the toughness is good, the shrinkage is good, and it is not easy to deform. The wood carving art carved from these wood has fine and smooth patterns, natural and beautiful. Secondly, there are Pinus sylvestris and Populus davidii in the north, chicken feather pine, Chinese wolfberry and Chinese Toon in the south, and imported cedar, Liu'an and mountain camphor. The wood of these tree species is relatively soft, the wood cell tissue is dense, and the fiber texture is also regular. This kind of tree species is more suitable for plate carving. Moderate materials include white birch, flower palm, purple tree, lotus, wood wax tree, etc. Neutral tree species are also ideal wood. Due to the soft texture of wood, the relevant technologies of soft wood carving are generally used in the creation of wood carving. The main feature of soft wood carving is that the tool edge is thin and sharp. Hard tree species should be operated by using the relevant skills of hardwood carving.
