Workshop production of jasper

Author: During a trip to Bashkiria, namely in the town of Sibai, I went to a workshop for the manufacture of products made of jasper, and looked at what conditions and with what tools created these works of art, which, incidentally, cost a lot of money ...







In Sibai I was in the day and the workshop did not work ... In front of a pile of rubble encounters, this is the starting material for the Future of boxes and pictures ...



Jasper - rock with mnozhestvomi impurities, so monotonous stone found almost ... They all have different color and texture ...





The workshop is a two-story room with a small set of rooms ... on these shelves are stones selected artists for their products, shelves labeled with the master ...



Use a hammer from the rock broken off the right piece that will go to the production of figures and reliefs ...



To produce the mosaics, paintings and typesetting boxes, stone sawn into plates of different thickness ...







In the studio are several people, all of them artists and carvers ...



Production figures begins with plasticine layout ... And then select the correct piece of stone, suitable in color and with aid of a simple set of tools cut the correct thing ... By the way, in the manufacture of any product not used dyes, color variety of the breed allows you to choose virtually any color scheme ...



Preparations for future products ...











Dialers paintings are created from stone plates ... Each master on the table of a huge number of different sizes, textures and colors ... Each element of the future picture is cut or sawed from the plates fitted in size and color to the prepared paper model ...



You can imagine how much hard work it is ... quite small paintings can be created for months ... and more - over the years ...











Can you imagine how long it takes to do just the maroon dress straps on this Greek woman? ..





The basis of the boxes makes it easier - fewer items, but with the lid will have to "tinker» ...



This box can cost tens of thousands of rubles ...



This bear is placed on the palm of one piece of jade worth, for example, 50 thous. Rubles ...



This mural "The Last Supper", the size of the meter by half a meter, worth 1 million. Rubles ... they ordered two ... Above him more than a month has several masters ...



In this workshop to create huge panels of five (!) For two (!) M ... Price smiled and did not say ...

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