{"id":72,"date":"2011-10-04T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/wordpress\/?p=72"},"modified":"2017-08-29T12:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T11:52:52","slug":"unusual-art-leaf-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Unusual Art: Leaf Carving"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EyyvCe5qYho?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>A new art form emerging out of China. Creating these leaf carvings is no easy process, taking the delicate precision from a skilled artisan. With a knife, the leaf is slowly scraped of its outer layers,\u00a0eventually revealing a near transparent surface. Special care is given to keep the veins intact to preserve the stability of the leaf.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Artists prefer using the leaves of the Chinar tree, native to India, Pakistan, and China. Resembling maple leaves, the distribution of veins in the Chinar leaves are the best suited for sculpting\u2013and they are considered \u2018lucky\u2019 in Chinese tradition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The process of producing a single leaf carving is said to take months of careful work. When the artwork is finished, the leaves are then preserved and framed\u2013ensuring that they will last for decades.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new art form emerging out of China. Creating these leaf carvings is no easy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random","tag-leaf-carving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Leaf-Carving.jpg?fit=550%2C524&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45vMv-1a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinbillington.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}