Agate: Finest Materials in Handicrafts

Agate is a colloidal mineral. In mineralogy, it belongs to the class of chalcedony. Since ancient times, agate has been welcomed by people. One of the ancient “seven treasures” was agate. Agate has been decorated by people since ancient times because of its beautiful patterns. In the jade pieces unearthed, a series of agate balls are commonly found.

Agate's wide variety of agate is generally translucent to opaque, hardness 6.5 to 7 degrees, more than crystal. The agate itself is characterized by its hardness, denseness, fineness, various shapes, high finish, beautiful colors, and rich colors. It is the finest material for arts and crafts, and it is combined with advanced technology and perfect art to give it a unique peculiarity. Conceived ideas, rich themes, clever design, superb carving skills. The artistic effect of its performance is extraordinary and extraordinary. There is a mantra in the jewellery line - agate is not red and I was poor. This shows how important red agate is.

In fact, agate is rich in color and variety, but red is the main color in agate. Because the natural red agate is less, and the color layer is not deep, red in the agate is mostly red agate. Its red color is red, purple, dark red, brown red, red sauce, yellow red and so on. In addition, the color red Yanyan Jin Jin agate, red and white ginseng called Jinhua agate or red flower agate. For jade carving products, with large blocks, for jewelry embedded stone, color is better. Agate is a large variety of jade carvings. It is used in large quantities and is mainly red. It is meticulously lined with other colors and textures to make the characteristics of agate prominent. It is also mainly used for other colors, and the effect is also very remarkable. Skilled jade carving masters applying extraordinary skills can make common agates a precious art treasure.

The ancients referred to the red agate as Chih Jae, or "Jong." The agate is jade, so it's called Jade. The texture of the agate is like crystal, delicate and without impurities, glossy glassy, ​​transparent or translucent. It is mostly lamellar. Each layer overlaps with each other and forms a variety of patterns such as corrugated, concentric, mottled, lamellar, and so on. Colors are red, white, yellow, blue, black, purple, green, gray, brown and so on.

The pattern and color of agate is rich and colorful Because the agate's pattern and color change is rich, there are many varieties, so there is the saying of “A thousand kinds of agate”.

Blue agate is light blue, lighter in color, darker in blue, and much like sapphire. The output was nodular and often tangled. In the past, it was mainly used to grind jewelry and pots. Large pieces were good materials for jade carvings. The blue agate is different from the egg agate. The egg agate is a white agate. When the fire turns white, the shade of blue is not blue. The blue agate is not faded by the fire and is more valuable. Artificially dyed blue agate has been in the market for many years and is dyed with cobalt dyes.

Green agate is rare in nature and is mostly artificially dyed. It is colored with white agate or egg white agate. The coloring agent is chromium. The dyed green agate is very much like the emerald green, but it is easier to identify, and its green can not help but flash a little blue. This is evidence that because it looks like emerald, it is very popular.

Purple agate is better than grape purple. This agate has a rough texture and a low degree of transparency. Because of its good color, it can be used as jewelry, and large pieces are also a good material for jade carving.

Wrapped silk agate is a type of agate that is intertwined with various colors in the form of ribbons. Because the ribbons are fine like oil, it is called silk agate. Some red and white, some blue and white, some black and white, or as wide as a band, or fine as silk, is very beautiful, ancient name cut agate. Silk sardonyx is also a commonly used species in jade carvings.

Black flower agate must have other colors contrasting strongly with the black, only black is beautiful, the so-called other colors are mostly porcelain white and white, of course, in these two main colors, there are more colors better, but all kinds Color is bright and lively. Using black agate to make some animals such as pandas is very popular.

Weed agate, also known as moss agate, is a type of agate with opaque color. The variety of colors, the most common green, thin sheets under the light, like needle-shaped grass cloth in it, so that weeds agate, bright colors can be used for jade carving.

The central part of the water agate agate has different characteristics: solid, careless, hollow, and hollow. The agate with water in the center is called agate agate and is a precious species in agate. It was a rare treasure in ancient times. The water gallbladder is awesome with a lot of water. The higher the transparency, the better.

White agate is rarely used in handicrafts, and most of them are used for instrumentation. But since the artificial dyeing began, its importance began to grow.

Agate staining is an improvement in processing, because agate has a skin, a rough opaque, and a relatively fine, so it is generally used after heat treatment. At the same time, the color of natural red agate is not very bright, but also needs to be heat-treated before it changes from maroon, red to red, and egg blue to white. Therefore, the heat treatment of agate has become a common procedure for making jewelry.

Since ancient times, agate and pearls have been grouped together as treasures. However, today's agate is widely used because of its large volume of production. Because it is produced all over the world, it is not of high value. It is a low-grade material and jade carving handicrafts. The price in the jewelry market is also relatively low. At present, for the dyed agate, the new national standard is not strict and it is considered acceptable. Because it belongs to the improvement of processing, it is not necessary to indicate on the trademark.