How to choose materials when making root carvings, and why is material selection important?
Because the texture inside the good root material will become more and more beautiful as time goes by.
And this bunch of flowers and color can best prove the location of the material.
This is precisely the most difficult part of all the characteristics of the root material to imitate.
The texture of the root material, the knotted flowers and the galls and boils, are both "natural" and are indispensable elements in the creation of root carvings.
When the boils, phloem veins, and exposed texture and tones on the root material become the composition of the form and theme of the work, it is the expression of root carving plastic art.
The root carving shape must have sufficient spatial volume, perfect decent transformation, and smooth curve transition.
To ensure the complete viewing surface of the axis, the work must reflect the "exquisiteness of humanity" to the maximum extent.
The root carving shape should reflect the beauty of the material, respect the material structure of the root material, and use the reduction and time of chiseling to create a pure and enlightened image.
The work must be unique and well-made, with original materials of good color, fine polishing, and appropriate arrangements.
Chen Wenzhe wanted to learn carving, and wood carving was the easiest to learn.
He has the skills of jade carving and his high level, so it is not difficult to learn wood carving.
However, his jade carving skills are theoretical and practical, but he only experienced the experience of the ancients with the help of the Sui Marquis Pearl, rather than doing it himself.
Now he wants to try it with his own hands. Naturally, wood carving is more convenient.
Because wood carving is not difficult to carve, and the raw materials are not difficult to find.
Such as boxwood, sandalwood, beech, cypress, elm, sunken wood, jujube, etc.
These raw materials are really easy for Chen Wenzhe to find.
Of course, there are some special hardwoods that he also needs to get some.
Chen Wenzhe is a collector. No matter what it is, as long as he thinks it is good, he wants to collect as much as possible.
Anyway, the hardwood is well preserved and can be stored for many years. In addition, this thing can be regarded as a store of value, so he naturally wants to collect more of it.
Don't think that wood is a renewable resource and that it does not maintain its value. It is ordinary wood, really good hardwood, precious wood, especially old wood, which maintains its value and increases in value very stably.
There are some things that ordinary people don't know, such as lychee wood.
Lychee wood, an evergreen tree, belongs to the Sapindaceae family.
It is also a hardwood, a high-quality wood, and its acid resistance is very strong.
The material is hard and heavy, tough and durable, and is not afraid of water immersion. It is a good material for wood carvings and furniture.
Lychee trees that are more than a hundred years old have entangled roots and well-shaped knots, making them more ornamental than ordinary redwoods.
Then there is jujube wood, which is rarely considered a precious wood.
The jujube tree is also a deciduous tree with a trunk height of up to 10 meters. The bark is rough, usually not straight, and there are many knots on the surface, so the yield rate is not very high.
Because of its slow growth, wood is heavy, hard, fine-grained, wear-resistant, not easily eaten by insects, and not easily deformed, the ancients often used it as an ideal material for printing and engraving.
Nowadays, jujube wood is no longer needed for printing and engraving, so it will naturally be used to process some wood carvings, furniture, etc.
Jujube wood is hard and bright red in color. It will turn red after being left for a long time.
This kind of tree has fine texture, no obvious growth rings, and is extremely beautiful;
Furthermore, jujube trees can naturally form water ripples due to their growth characteristics or man-made reasons.
From the price point of view, jujube wood is not as good as mahogany, but from the use value point of view, there is not much difference between the two.
People have always had a misunderstanding that jujube wood cannot be used to make furniture.
But in fact, jujube wood is a very good wood for making furniture. The characteristics of jujube wood have been discussed before.
The reason for this saying is that jujube wood was hard and difficult to process at that time.
It’s not easy to make small items in your hand, let alone furniture.
In modern society, the development of modern machinery has brought the possibility of making furniture from jujube wood.
In recent years, the price of redwood has continued to rise.
Jujube wood is similar to mahogany in terms of texture and quality, so it is slowly entering the high-end consumer market.
There are a large number of people growing jujube in northern my country, but due to the difficulty in processing and the lack of wood, it is difficult to ensure that jujube will not become the next high-end wood species.
In addition, the value of lightning-strike jujube wood on the market is higher and is rare, but fake lightning-strike wood also accounts for a considerable amount.
Of course, jujube wood is not without its flaws.
Although jujube wood is good, it also has shortcomings.
First, jujube wood is easy to bend during the growth process, and cracks are easy to appear between the wood, making it difficult to process;
Second, jujube wood is hard but not tough. It has rigid characteristics but no flexibility, so it is not suitable for making particularly delicate objects.
Therefore, the jujube wood furniture that is commonly seen on the market all utilizes the characteristics of high hardness, and there are basically no particularly delicate jujube wood items.
However, in the market, prices are based on the principle of scarcity.
The difficulty of processing jujube wood and the low yield of wood all determine that jujube wood furniture will have room for appreciation in the future.
For families in rural areas, if a jujube tree at home is suffering from jujube disease, it is a good idea to ask a local carpenter to make jujube furniture. It would be a pity to burn it.
I believe that as people continue to recognize the value of jujube wood, the price of jujube wood will rise. When the time comes, after jujube wood loses its vitality, there will be a new choice and it will become people's favorite furniture.
Jujube wood is one of the few top-grade redwoods that ordinary people can easily access.
Since there are several types, there are naturally others, such as toon wood and ailanthus wood.
Few people know that these two types of wood are also redwood.
Everyone is familiar with the toon tree, especially in spring, many friends like to eat toon scrambled eggs.
As a northerner, Chen Wenzhe naturally likes it very much. Every year he makes some Chinese toon sauce and pairs it with freshly made steamed buns, which is simply delicious.
In fact, toon wood can also be used to make furniture when it grows up.
In many places, there is a custom of making "wedding beds" out of chun trees.
In the past, when young people got married, they made their own furniture.
In some places, chun trees are generally used to make beds for couples to get married, but it is unknown what the details are.
In addition, doors in the past were generally made of wood, and most of them were made of toon trees.
Because I heard that the door made of chun trees will make a sound, which can be heard when someone opens the door, which can serve as a reminder.
Also, when a house was built in the past, a toon tree would always be placed on it as a sign of good luck.
So, is toon wood expensive?
Regarding the price of toon wood, Chen Wenzhe also checked some market information because he wanted to collect mahogany.
He found that the price of chun tree wood was still relatively high.
However, the price of toona wood in different regions still varies.
In addition, the type of toon wood and quality issues must also be considered.
The current price of toon wood on the market is generally around 000 yuan per cubic meter.