Let’s visit a workshop located in Sibay city where expensive jasper jewelry is made.

These cobblestones are used as material for future boxes and pictures.

Jasper is a rock with numerous impurities and it is almost impossible to find a monotone stone. They are all different in colour and texture.

The workshop is a two-storey building with some rooms. The pieces of jasper on the shelves are chosen and signed by masters and will be used later in their work.

A part of the stone is separated with the help of a hammer. It will be turned into different figures then.

For pictures and boxes stone is usually cut into plates of different length.

This workshop is occupied by professional engravers.

For making figures a plastic dummy is needed. After that craftsmen choose a stone piece of corresponding color and make a figure out of it. By the way, colorants are not used as any color-grade can be obtained. The work is very monotonous and it usually takes several months and even several years to create a picture.

Pictures are made of stone plates. Every craftsman has a lot of different stone plates at his disposal. Every element of a future picture is cut out of a plate and then placed to a paper model.

The craftsmen say that they have experience of creating a huge picture that was 5 meters long and 2 meters wide. They refused to name the price.

It is much easier to make a box as it has lesser elements in it. However, its cover requires much elaborate work.

The cost of such a box is tens of thousand rubles.

Thus, the bear costs 50 thousand rubles.

The Last Supper picture will cost around 1 million rubles.

Location: Sibay

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