Olivary carving

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1.100% Olive Nut
2.100% Handmade
3.100%Boutique

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Olive nut carving, that is to carve on a small olive nut. The history of olive carving is from Warring States in China, until the Ming Dynasty, it was very popular not only in the royal but also in the commonalty, and became a symbol of rank. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, nearly every scholar have a olive carving. It can be a bracelet, a decorations of a mobile phone, etc. As a traditional art, the olive nut carving have been a symbol of art and fashion.

Why the olive nut carving is so popular? There are 3 main reasons:
1.      In the traditional China, this kind of adornment can exorcise evil spirits. The content of carving normally some deity of traditional China, they can exorcise the evil spirits and bring good luck.
2.      a good olive nut carving should be dallied with after you got it. When you get a new olive nut carving, it always a yellow one, but with your dallying, after some weeks or ever months, it will get redder and redder, and its reflect will be more mellow;
3.      Dallying with a olive nut carving is a culture. All the olive nut carving is made by hands, and is not easy to made. For its hard to carve, it have more connotation. There are not two olive nut carvings look the same.
The olive nut carving must be take care to keep it beautiful, or it may get cracked, be dark or damaged, now I will tell you how to take care of a good olive nut carving
Avoid cracking
The reason why the olive get cracked is the humidity difference outside and inside of the olive nut. Generally, the olive nut have a cavity where there is a kernel. After carved, the kernel is take out of the cavity. The humidity inside of the nut must be same with outside, or the woodiness will transform and may crack. To avoid this, you should follow these regulations:
1.     No dry in the sun;
2.     No water, if the carving fall in water, you should take it out and put in a plastic bag and tie a loose knot, then the water can volatilize slowly. Remember, don not let it dry fast.
3.     No dry with a blower. If you dry with a blower, the outside and inside will get dry in different speed, this may lead to crack.
How to dally with a olive nut carving
After you get a new one, you had better adorn it at least one month, after that there will be a protection outside the nut and it will not crack easily. That is because our skin secretes sweat and oil everyday, when we adorning the olive nut carving, the sweat and oil can soak into the olive nut. With this, the carving will get redder and glossy, after that, it will be your only ornaments, it is special, for it has your things in it.
Olive nut love oil, if you have oily skin, congratulations, you can feed a very beautiful olive nut carving
When you don’t wear it, you had better put it in a sealed plastic bag.

Why the olive nut carving is so popular? There are 3 main reasons:

1.      In the traditional China, this kind of adornment can exorcise evil spirits. The content of carving normally some deity of traditional China, they can exorcise the evil spirits and bring good luck.

2.      a good olive nut carving should be dallied with after you got it. When you get a new olive nut carving, it always a yellow one, but with your dallying, after some weeks or ever months, it will get redder and redder, and its reflect will be more mellow;

3.      Dallying with a olive nut carving is a culture. All the olive nut carving is made by hands, and is not easy to made. For its hard to carve, it have more connotation. There are not two olive nut carvings look the same.

The olive nut carving must be take care to keep it beautiful, or it may get cracked, be dark or damaged, now I will tell you how to take care of a good olive nut carving

Avoid cracking

The reason why the olive get cracked is the humidity difference outside and inside of the olive nut. Generally, the olive nut have a cavity where there is a kernel. After carved, the kernel is take out of the cavity. The humidity inside of the nut must be same with outside, or the woodiness will transform and may crack. To avoid this, you should follow these regulations:

1.     No dry in the sun;

2.     No water, if the carving fall in water, you should take it out and put in a plastic bag and tie a loose knot, then the water can volatilize slowly. Remember, don not let it dry fast.

3.     No dry with a blower. If you dry with a blower, the outside and inside will get dry in different speed, this may lead to crack.

How to dally with a olive nut carving

After you get a new one, you had better adorn it at least one month, after that there will be a protection outside the nut and it will not crack easily. That is because our skin secretes sweat and oil everyday, when we adorning the olive nut carving, the sweat and oil can soak into the olive nut. With this, the carving will get redder and glossy, after that, it will be your only ornaments, it is special, for it has your things in it.

Olive nut love oil, if you have oily skin, congratulations, you can feed a very beautiful olive nut carving

When you don’t wear it, you had better put it in a sealed plastic bag.