The chain carving is crazy

I can only imagine when these carvers didn’t have the more modern electric carving tools, how long even a small piece would take to hand carve, Months and months and months!!!  The patience it would have taken to do that is amazing!!!! No wonder those centuries old pieces are so valuable!!!

My first job after leaving the US Army in '75 was as a jade carver in Fairbanks Alaska at The Alaskan Jade Cache. Our material was north American/Canadian nephrite, so quite different from the Burmese stone here. We had 60 tons of good jade ranging from jet black through translucent grass juice green to small amoumts of sky blue. Fun.

Chinese artisans are amazing.  I have seen so many art forms that just blows my mind.  Wonder how much that large piece will sell for!

These artisans are the best of the best ,  the deserve millions .  Beautiful work .

So basically these people have to excel at multiple types of art.

This is the kind of video that I hope little bit longer,,I don't mind watching it for 50 minutes,

Imagine days before diamond bits and powered drills, working with only hand drills and grits under light of oil lamps. Must had taken years.

This will never age..
An Amazing human creation🔥

Respect china culture

Amazing.  That slab of rainbow jade is incredible.

If we can only imagine, jade expert with an entire mountain "Mt Rushmore" to explore the shape of the rock.

I am obsessed with this stuff

Incredible skills aside. Just imagine the patience to work on a piece for months and then spend weeks just polishing it!

I get quite a bit of this at my work. It’s my favorite sculptures to work with. So beautiful!

Wow humans are capable of such beautiful works

Ever since Ive seen these as a child, been obsessed!

now you know why you pay so much for a 3 inch tall jade budda statue. it cant be done with machines.

Truly incredible! The work and skill that goes into jadeite carving has always impressed me

AMAZING! Enjoy your dream experience with the jade secret! Best regards from London!

In a free society, the artist would sell it and reap the reward.