What wood is the best for root carving tea table?
The durable wood mainly includes sandalwood, nanmu, mahogany, rosewood, Dalbergia, rosewood, ebony, beech, rosewood, Cinnamomum camphora, camphor wood, pine and cypress, longan wood, litchi wood and so on. The selection of roots mainly starts from the material and form of roots. Material refers to the variety and hardness of roots. Generally speaking, roots should be hard, and roots that are too rotten and soft have little creative value. The morphology of roots mainly means that the root material should reflect the characteristics of roots, such as withered roots. Moreover, it is necessary to choose some root materials with more complicated shapes, so as to find more propositions.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Root Carved Tea Table
1. Particularity and preciousness of materials: Generally, they are the roots of hundreds to thousands of years, the first-class tree species, and have certain value.
2. naturalness and craftsmanship are perfectly combined, and the strengths of root art and wood carving are integrated, which has extraordinary aesthetic feeling.
3. It is unique, and each work is unique. It cannot be copied, synthesized or counterfeited.
4. According to the change of indoor humidity, the newly bought root carving tea table is prone to crack because it is not very dry and contains certain moisture.
5. The root carving tea table requires a dry environment. If it is in a humid environment, it will rot easily.
6. The root carving tea table should not be in contact with acid, alkali and other irritating products. Care should be taken in daily maintenance. If it is contaminated, it will easily damage the glaze and cause damage.
making method of root carving tea table
1. material selection
the first step is to choose raw materials for a good ornamental and practical work. Because there are many kinds of trees and roots in nature, it is almost impossible to be a root art work without processing, but the roots of natural beauty are everywhere, so you need a pair of eyes to discover beauty. Root wood mainly comes from two sources: one is picked from hillside, roadside and terraced fields; Choose from the firewood piles of farmers and the pile heads and waste roots discarded in gardens. The second is to buy from the market. In addition, the selection of roots mainly starts from the material and form of roots. The variety and hardness of the material, the hardness is better; The morphology is the most distinctive, such as dead roots, etc. Choose some roots with more complicated morphology, so as to find more propositions.
2. Treatment of root material
1. Peeling and cleaning
There are generally two ways, knife peeling and soaking. The former requires cleaning the root material first, leaving it outdoors for two or three days, waiting for most of the water to evaporate, and then prying off the bark from the fracture with a knife. The latter is suitable for dry root materials that have been left for a long time. Immerse the root materials in water for several days until they can be peeled off. Be careful not to damage the root materials and destroy the texture. In fact, as long as it doesn't damage the wood, you don't have to stick to the above methods.
2. Decaying
The rotting parts in the wood are eliminated in order to clean up stains and bacteria, and at the same time, it can add cleanliness and beauty to the root wood.
3. Anti-crack and insect-proof treatment
There are also several ways, such as natural drying, cooking, drying and soaking. Generally speaking, proper bleaching powder, BHC powder, etc. should be added in cooking to kill the insects and bacteria inside. When root carving works are made of crack-proof and insect-proof materials, it is often not easy to crack, deform, be eaten by insects, rot and change color.
third, conception
that is, you need to have an idea, what kind of works you need to create and what kind of modeling is. In the later period of carving, we should abide by the principle of "three carvings and seven grindings", mainly imitating the grinding method of the natural form of the root, supplemented by a small amount of local carving, so that the carved and ground parts and the form of the root can be integrated as far as possible, leaving no traces of carving and trying not to destroy its natural form and aesthetic feeling.
4. Processing and sculpting
After you have a general idea, you will start to work. First, you will get rid of some branches or roots that you think are useless, and the cross section can be processed into a natural cave by fire pouring, and the convex surface will be processed into a tumor to achieve the effect of natural beauty. For some incomplete root materials, the root materials with the same texture can be used for splicing, and the technique should be exquisite and do not leave traces.
v. polishing, coloring and painting
after the basic shape carving is completed, we will polish it with a coarse emery cloth to smooth all the scars, and finally polish it with a fine emery cloth to make the surface bright and recognizable. Note: the intensity of grinding should be uniform to avoid destroying the original color and texture. In order to protect the work from corrosion, dust and insects, and to enhance its artistic wood effect, it can also be colored and painted.
There are two popular coloring methods:
1. True colors: wax or varnish directly, return to its original colors, and apply it for three times. The color is fresh and elegant, and it will not cover the natural lines of the roots, which is simple and natural, showing the natural beauty of the roots.
2. Bronze color: The color is close to the antique color of mahogany, which can better highlight the characteristics of primitive simplicity of root art..
root carving tea table maintenance method
1. Avoid light and sunlight. Long-term light and sunlight will degrade the color of oil on the surface of the root carving tea table, which will affect the beauty and collection value of the root carving, and seriously cause the root carving tea table to deteriorate, making it difficult to protect the material. The wax layer on the surface of the root carving tea table will melt, the paint film will age and fall off, and even the material will crack.
2. Never place the root carving tea table in a dark and humid environment. Too high humidity is easy to breed mold and diseases and insect pests, resulting in mildew, moth-eaten, rot and cavity. Root carving tea tables are generally not suitable for washing, especially for soaking in water, and pay attention to air circulation.
3. Never let the root carving tea table come into contact with chemicals and corrosive substances. Chemical substances can easily cause various chemical reactions, weaken the protective coating on the surface of root carving tea table, and lead to shelling.
4. Prevent the root carving tea table from rubbing and colliding in the process of moving, or scratching with sharp objects or hard objects, so as to avoid leaving traces, spots and scars and other unsightly phenomena.