An artist carved hyper-realistic grapes from a stone. The talented craftsman showed off the traditional Qingtian stone carving technique in Fujian, China, on October 2. Footage shows the man ...

The talc content varies in the stone, and the ones used by the Chinese for this type of carving were up to 80% talc, while the soapstone used today for such things as countertops is only 30% talc.

Lishui Jian, a stone carving work in the shape of a large ship by Ye Pinyin, presents the natural scenery and landscape of Lishui city in East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo provided to ...

A stunning traditional Chinese stone carving, with estimated value of over 160 million yuan, will be auctioned off here early October, according to a Beijing-based auction company. The wonderful ...

Hu Yinsong from Tongxiang, eastern China, has been carving peach stone pieces for some 50 years. He started in his teens after being inspired by a great uncle of his. He has now made over 1,000.

Their research shows that the ancient Chinese pulled the stone for the carving on a wooden sledge sliding on an ice path, and that they likely used water as a lubricant on the path. Contrary to the ...

Seal carving dates back to the Spring and Autumn period in China (770-476BC), when the tradition of signing documents with personalised engraved stone seals dipped in vermilion cinnabar paste began.

Made of precious and semi-precious stones, the artworks present the little-known Chinese art of precious-stone carving to the Greek public. "It is very important that this exhibition is taking place ...

A native of Qingtian county, Lishui city in East China's Zhejiang province, Ye Pinyong is a master of Chinese arts and crafts and a representative inheritor of Qingtian Stone Carving, an ...