How Are Icons from Semiprecious Stones Made?

This workshop is one of the oldest in St. Elisabeth Convent founded in 1999. Since then, the workshop masterpieces created by such an unusual method have become popular throughout the world.
Works from the Crushed Semi-Precious Stone Workshop are long lasting and durable because the materials used do not fade or tarnish.
This process is quite unusual because the artist is not using paint as one would in conventional paintings but instead minerals and semi-precious stones ground by hand are used.

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