Hou Xue restores a gold lacquer item from the Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum. [Photo provided to China Daily] Lacquer is a natural resin that can help prevent items made of wood from cracking, iron ...

A hanging decorative screen featuring gold lacquer inlays made by young craftsman Hou Xue. [Photo provided to China Daily] An art graduate embarks on an arduous, but potentially glittering, career by ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum opened its doors in Cairo in November, where King Tutankhamun's tomb and all of its contents - ...

Records of gold in human civilization date back 6,000 years to Mesopotamia, where it was used to craft various decorations and helmets. Ancient Egyptians, calling unchanging gold the "flesh of the ...

Luke Hartigan receives funding from the Australian Research Council (DP230100959). The price of gold surged above US$4,100 (A$6,300) an ounce on Wednesday for the first time, taking this year’s ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Gold is a heavy metal and one of Earth's rarer elements, formed in space when neutron stars ...

In this woodturning video, I will be using the Ortur Laser Master 3 to create a woodturning project by cutting MDF Halloween figures and inlaying them into a vase with epoxy resin. This laser can cut ...

The Korea Heritage Service (KHS; Administrator Choi Eung-chon), in collaboration with the Korea Heritage Agency (KHA; President, Choi Young-chang), debuts in ‘London Craft week’, UK. ‘London Craft ...

Where is China's largest cultural relics conservation institution? That agency — the cultural relics conservation and restoration department of the Palace Museum — is located in Beijing, in the ...

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A look at five exhibitions in Paris that pay homage to the planet, the passage of time and irreverence as an art of living and inhabiting. These are the kinds of tables, stools and lamps that you ...