What tree has wood or roots suitable for carving?

The wood used for root carving must be selected with hard, delicate wood, stable wood, not easy to crack and deform, and can be preserved for a long time without decay, such as boxwood, sandalwood, beech, cypress, elm, etc. The dead roots that have been submerged or buried deep in the soil by water and silt, and the ancient gloomy root trees formed by carbonization over hundreds of years, are almost close to fossils in quality, and they are the best materials for root art.

Root carving is based on the self-generated and distorted form of tree roots (including tree body, tree nodules, bamboo roots, etc.) as the object of artistic creation, through conception, artistic processing and technological processing, to create people, animals, utensils and other artistic image works. The art of root carving is to find natural beauty and show creative processing of plastic arts, the so-called "three points of artificial, seven points of nature", that is to say, in the creation of root carving, most of the natural form of the root material should be used to express the artistic image, a small part of the artificial processing and modification, therefore, the root carving is also called "the art of the root" or "the art of the root".

The Suzhou Museum has a boxwood table and pen holder from the early Qing Dynasty, which is a root carving work created by skillfully using the natural root form. In the early 50s of the last century, the Suzhou Cultural Management Association had collected several tree root furniture, one of which was a relic of the four sons of the late Ming Dynasty. Mr. Gu Duhuang, a Kunqu opera expert in Suzhou, has a "Langyu vase" in his home, which is also a root carving masterpiece left in the Ming Dynasty.

It can be seen that the art of root carving has always been cherished by people in Suzhou.

The roots of boxwood are the most famous, warding off evil spirits.

Wenge wood, camphor wood, lychee wood, cinnamon wood, red bean paste, rosewood, teak, etc.

It is also common to carve bamboo roots.

Oh, and by the way, there's also the super-precious kind of ebony, which is made by carbonizing wood in the riverbed for thousands of years.

Which wood is used for carving, should not be too hard, and the thickness of the structure can be; For decoration, the color, pattern or texture is required to be beautiful and chic, and sometimes its special shape is used to imitate and carve into a certain decoration, and the paint and adhesive performance are excellent; Easy to cut, no collapse, no breakage; The dry shrinkage rate is small, no cracking and no deformation. Preferably boxwood, pear, from the texture of the wood, the best wood is the most suitable for carving. Such as:

Ginkgo, mahogany, boxwood.

Cinnamomum camphor, pear, red sandalwood, oriental cypress, Korean pine, zhennan, sandalwood, fragrant flower, linden, walnut and other precious woods. The material properties of these tree species are very good, the texture is straight, the material is dense, the cutting surface is smooth, the toughness is good, the shrinkage is good, and it is not easy to deform.

Generally, some hard and non-brittle woods will be used for carving, such as sandalwood, peach, pear blossom wood, etc., which are more common in carving and are also very suitable.

A perfect carving, in addition to drawing a good drawing, the wood required for carving is extremely particular.

Pearwood, boxwood and various mahogany are suitable for carving handicrafts, such as walnut, birch, red pine these woods are suitable as seals that can be engraved, the wood used for carving should not be too hard, it is best to choose wood with a moderate structure. Laser engraving and cutting can be used for engraving, both of which are simple.

Many handicrafts in life are carved from wood, and the wood suitable for carving is pear wood, boxwood and various mahogany, which are very hard and suitable for carving wood. Woods like walnut, birch, and red pine are all suitable as engravable stamps, and stamps made from these woods will not break.

The wood used for carving should not be too hard, it is best to choose wood with a moderate thickness of structure, if you want to carve handicrafts with excellent luster and good texture, you can spray a layer of paint on the wood after carving. It is best to choose a good adhesive paint, which is better to spray with this paint and store it for a longer time.

The best wood for carving seals is loquat wood and wheel plum wood, in addition, the seals carved from eucommia and southwest alder are also not bad, and the wood used for carving seals is best to choose wood that is not cracked and should not be deformed. Laser engraving and cutting can be used for engraving, both of which are simple.

Laser engraving is like printing paper with a computer or printer, and the laser is directed at the material to be engraved. Engraving with the cutting method requires applying toner to the paper, which is a bit more difficult than laser engraving, and it is best to use this method under the guidance of a professional.

Engraving: pear wood.

Handicraft carving: pear wood, boxwood, all kinds of mahogany (sour branches, sandalwood, yellow pear).

Lettering (in order of material grade): birch, red pine, white pine, pear, ash, walnut.

High-grade engraved plaques: pear wood, mahogany.

With laser engraving and cutting, the process is as simple as printing on paper with a computer and printer. You can use a variety of graphics processing software, such as CorelDraw, etc., in the Win98 Win2000 WinXP environment to design, scanned graphics, vectorized ** and a variety of CAD files can be easily "printed" to the engraving machine.

The only difference is that printing applies toner to the paper, while laser engraving throws a laser onto almost all materials such as wood products, sub-grains, plastic sheets, metal sheets, stones, etc.