Eggshell Art

Unique carvings made from eggshell

The carving patterns made through the eggshell medium are almost as thick as the thickness of two hairs making the craft is different from the others

In the end this culture developed into the handicrafts of traders who many people hunted while celebrating the special moments that eventually traders make the eggs more interesting and memorable of them with the painting of birds, flowers, and fauna patterns.

As is known not easy to make the eggshell as a canvas to paint and even carved because the shell is easily fragile it takes expertise and special techniques to carve it

To form the perfect engraving on the shell usually the artisan carving the eggs before decorating their eggs removes the contents of the egg and undergoes the disinfecting process of a hole at one end of the eggs carefully formed so that the shell is not cracked

Usually there are two simple tools used for painting and carving of burin eggs and other tool shovel blades including pencils, erasers, knives, grinding stones, and nicking tools

Engraving techniques used are positive, negative carving and carving lines of each egg that has been carved into a unique carving product and become a beautiful work eggs usually only cooked with boiled fried technique and also realized but can be creative to make the egg as a home decoration amazingly unique and interesting