Vegetable and Fruit Carving

Learn to carve step by step.

There are many Thai traditional arts. Carving is one of those precious heritages that have been passed from generation to generation This immortal art requires personal skills, proficiency, and delicacy. Currently, many foreigners are interested in this craft, due to its Oriental beauty.

People interested in carving must learn basics first, starting from knife holding and knife twisting techniques to the application of many patterns to make the carving look natural. These basics are essential for the more delicate, difficult, and complicated parts when the learners reach the higher steps of practice. In addition, carving styles can be applied to branch out new carving patterns at all times.

Contents
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Introduction to carving tools
- How to hold the carving knife
- Knife exercise
Petal carving methods
Preparing the carving object
Step-by-step to carve flower patterns
- Pook Toom flower pattern
- Pook Kwan flower pattern (notched and curved pattern)
- Pook Toom flower pattern mixed with Dahlia Rose petals
- Blooming rose pattern
- Curved inward-blooming rose pattern
- Carnation pattern
Vegetable and fruit carving
- Thai egg plant
- Tomato
- Cucumber
Soap carving

Video Detail
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Runtime : 132 mins
Audio : Thai
Subtitle : English