“Scoppare” the shell Cornaiola is the art to cut the shell with precision to draw pieces of it to engrave Cameos. The part that he/she remains will be used for creating objects you launch, ashtray, paperweight, figurines.
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The first phase of the workmanship consists in the choice of the shell.Subsequently he passes to the scoppatura, or to the cut of the most convex part of the shell, her “cup”; then he proceeds to the marking and the sagomatura of the cut...