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Bali Wood Carving

You will not believe that some collections of our woodcarving products are made by young school children. These talented children make our meticulously carved chess with different models and are also involved in the production process. They can carve woods into different shapes of chess using different chisels.

The type of the woods that make our woodcarving products varies according to the end products. We use type of Albezia, Jempinus and sonokeling woods. Of these woods only sonokeling wood is imported from Java the others are from Bali.

To make table decorations, such as fancy small animals, we use wood of Albezia because this type of wood is easily carved and light. To make the chess we use wood of clove. Jempinis and sonokeling woods are also made for decorations.

  Decorations

To make the table decorations, we make longitudinal cut of the woods. This is done by the machine so the width of the wood is similar. On the wood, the pattern for the decoration is drawn and a school child can do that. It is an easy job, he only needs to copy the pattern on the wood. The wood is then cut following the pattern using cutting machine. Either an adult or a child does it. From this process, a number of raw decorations are produced.

Using a special knife, young mother skillfully shapes and polishes these raw decorations into fine-shaped decorations. So, the shapes of birds, cats or cows are obvious. These-mass produced decorations then wait to be dried in the oven. The length of the heating depends on how long the materials get dry.

After being dried, all decorations are sprayed with black tints. By passing this process, the whole parts of the decorations can be uniformly painted.

Now, the decorations are about to finish. They are then painted white by hand before painted to different fancy colors. The color painting is entirely made by hands using different colors. These prepared decorations should not be tainted with waters. It will blur the color of the decorations. To get glossy look and protect the color from the water, the prepared decorations are painted with a chemical called Aqua Liquer.


Chess
 
Our carved chess are different from normal chess in their shapes. The kings, queens or pawns of our chess are carved into Balinese looks. The young school children cut the woods to the standard size of the chess and they handsomely carve it to shapes, such as pawns, kings or queens using sharp-pointed chisel.

The raw chess are then polished to get fine looks and shapes. Following the polishing process, they are dyed into either red or black colors.

 
 


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