What manual work can roots do?

Roots can be made into handicrafts, tea tables and stools.

The root carving tea table is made use of the natural form of the roots or stumps of ancient trees, and then processed by a series of techniques, which integrates decorative effect and practical function. It is the product of craftsmen giving full play to their wisdom and turning waste into treasure. Root carving tea table, also known as tea table and tea table, is for people to drink tea. Compared with the traditional tea table, the root carving tea table is more beautiful, and each tea table is unique and has certain collection value.

The tea table of root carving is basically conceived by roots of different shapes as a whole, and then processed by art. Each tea table with root carving has different shapes and artistic characteristics, which can be well combined with tea culture and make people feel an artistic atmosphere in the process of tea tasting. It can also play a certain decorative role when placed at home or in public places.

Root carving:

Root carving is a carving method and one of the traditional carving arts in China. It takes the autogenous and twisted form of tree roots (including tree body, tree tumor and bamboo root) as the artistic creation object, and creates artistic image works such as figures, animals and utensils through conception, artistic processing and technical treatment.

Root carving art is a plastic art that discovers natural beauty and shows creative processing. The craft of root carving pays attention to "three points artificial, seven points natural", that is to say, in the creation of root carving, the artistic image should be expressed mainly by the natural form of root wood, supplemented by manual treatment. Therefore, root carving is also called "the art of roots" or "the art of roots". According to archaeological findings, the ancients not only used wood, jade, bones, stones and shells as decorations, but also used tree roots or bamboo roots as decorations.