Cedar and walnut: carved and turned

A set of dark wood crafts. Cedar is used for ceilings, doors, and screens, with a deep reddish-brown color and fine, straight grain. Walnut is used for furniture and small items, with an even darker color. There are only two processing methods: shallow relief carvings of geometric and vine patterns on flat surfaces, and thin wooden strips turned into alternating spherical knots to form screens. The surface is only waxed, not painted, and the carved recesses are darker in color. Avoid: using light-colored wood and painted wood, replacing hand-carved depth variations with laser engraving, dyeing the wood to a uniform color, adding paint and gilding to wood carvings.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組深色木的工藝。雪松用在天花、門與格屏上,顏色是深褐帶紅,紋理細直;核桃木用在家具與小件上,顏色更深。加工的方式只有兩種:平面上用淺浮雕刻出幾何與藤蔓、細木條車枳成球節相間的形狀再組成格屏。表面只上蠟不上漆,雕刻的凹處顏色更深。避免:使用淺色木與上漆的木材、用雷射雕刻取代手工的深淺變化、把木材染成均勻的顏色、在木雕上加彩繪與貼金。