How to maintain and prevent wood carving products from cracking?

woodcarving is generally carved with a whole tree trunk, and there are few spliced works, which makes Xianyou woodcarving particularly sensitive to changes in the external environment. Nowadays, most of the carvings use advanced wood drying equipment, which often leaves the wood in the air for a long time or directly dries it for further processing and carving, so that the carved works are not easy to deform or crack. Of course, there are also many sculptors who start making wood when the wood is not completely dry. After the work is completed, the cracks are not obvious in the warm and humid climate in the south of China, but once it is transported to the dry northern region of China, it will be easily damaged if the wood carving is not maintained.

keep constant temperature and humidity, and try to control the temperature between 15℃ and 35℃, with the change within 6℃-8℃ in one day, and the relative humidity is about 5%-6%, with the change within 3%-5% in one day. You can also put a few pots of water around the wood carving to ease the dryness.

For cracked wood carvings, it is necessary for professionals to fill and polish them with sawdust mixed with colloid. Some people burn old cotton cloth or broken sacks into ashes, and mix them with raw tung oil to make a paste, which is embedded in the cracks of wood. Or tear the newspaper into pieces, add some alum and water, cook it into a thick paste, cool it and apply it to the cracks, and it will be very firm after drying.