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| The region of the Southern Urals of (Siberia) Russia has been famous for centuries for its production of high quality emeralds, sapphires, alexandrite, topaz, zircon, and other semi-precious gemstones. The gemstones are not only mined in the Southern Urals, they are oftentimes hand cut as well. This gorgeous landscape "painting" is composed of the tiny chips which are the by-product of cutting and faceting these gemstones. Following traditional methods generations old, artisans in the region of Siberia hand make these landscapes painting by applying crushed and chipped gemstones to a "canvas" of wood. Even the blues of the sky is ground lapis lazuli. The entirety of the painting is from crushed and chipped emeralds, rubies, sapphires, garnet, citrine, peridot, lapis lazuli, topaz, carnelian, amethyst, aquamarine, garnet, jade, pink tourmaline, malachite, aventurine, jasper, tigerseye, amazonite, as well as another twenty-five or so varieties of semi-precious gemstones. These not only look great on a wall or desk, they're really unique, and great conversation pieces. The images are superb, and you'll never see anything like it in the West, the work is simply too labor intensive. |
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