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Mosaic production process

Have you seen the sand bottle art? it looks a bit like famous for painting inside the bottle, but it has a completely different kind of crafts, art bottle is made from a variety of paint brush into the vial, in its wall paintings, and sand bottle art is colored sand poured into bottles.

Sand painting bottle production process

If you want to learn more about sand bottle art mysteries, you only experience in person.

Walk in the shop door, you'll be racking up fabulous sand bottle art attracted, they are really beautiful, colorful abstract designs, having vivid Donald, Popeye, cartoon characters, and a bottle of Pepsi-Cola is imitation, not look, really thought it was a bottle of juice in there! most or all of the desert landscape. There are sand bottles in the image, but also write with sand.

Many visitors hope in a bottle to write a few characters, this is no them, looking at the words on paper, one side with a wire with a glue in the bottle wall imitation to write, write, add a little red sand poured into bottles, bottle and cross over one go sand glued glue words written, then like just use funnel and the sand filling out other pattern, imagine bottle so small, the bottle is stereo, sand or flow, to put sand in bottle filling out pattern to how difficult this is!

AZ cat: tourism experts, freelance writer

As Jordan sand painting production process of witnesses, AZ CAT are best qualified to speak.

G: A global tour report: AZ cat

G: in your opinion, what is the sand bottle art when development?

A: from North Africa in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria in Western Asia, there is a handicraft seems to be no national boundaries, it is the sand bottle art (Sand Bottle), maybe and nomadic yellow sand desert living environment are closely related to tap, painting themes and colors and their vast and desolate environment, very exotic features, so this kind of cheap and very environmentally friendly art in this promotion.

G: do you think this is why environmental art, see?

A: may we as alien to the people of Jordan travel see sand bottle art when it is environmental protection work of art.

But for the local people, perhaps this is just an artisan.

G: why travel to Jordan?

A: for me personally, I am very fond of this Middle East country.

Through many countries in the Middle East, I on the local culture as well as special landscape lights some, including monuments, civilization. These places are the comparison of a region, but you are not familiar with the place to go to Jordan travel is my very early on before you are ready.

G: external factors for you to go to Jordan travel are there, such as transformers 2?

A: no, because I'm not a favorite movie, I went to Jordan is known only after Transformers 2 shot.

G: from Jordan who sell sand bottle art, native way of life?

A: handicrafts are these areas people depend on for survival craft, they are not very high-end advanced machines, rely on them in the hands of the simplest tools, using local materials, and then sold to the foreigners to earn some money.

Petra this place is full of mountains, hills, the most valuable of the sand, because the production of this kind of color variety of sand, sand and Earth are, then they sell this sand bottle art not surprising.

G: that of living in Jordan, there are no such environmentally-conscious?

A: from my perspective, this arts and crafts with local characteristics, is very environmentally friendly.

But in their own terms, is up to the height of this awareness, sand bottle art easier, but the cost is very low, in an unconscious was completed in the environment.

G: in addition to the sand bottle art, Jordan, what else?

A: Jordan addition sand bottle art this cost is very low and very green work of art, there is the same process is very famous: mosaic, the same test maker of craftsmanship and creativity.

Jordan mosaic crafts a lot, but the quality of the best has concentrated in Madrid, we come to Madrid for a mosaic workshop, watching people grow a lot of knowledge of mosaic production process. In an already painted pattern paper, locals intently with small chunks of diamond tweezers is a small mosaic with a little glue, adhesive paper, finishes an A4 size picture to more than a week's time, huge work you will need three months or longer, price view case size from 100 up to several thousand dollars in RMB.