chinese fossil craft

The introduction to the swallowstone crafts Swallow Stone, also known as the bat stone, whose scientific name is trilobite fossils, generated in the late Paleozoic Cambrian 500 million years ago. It is a marine animal fossils, and is also one of Chinese rare fossils. The city of Laiwu on the east of Mount Tai has the richest reserves of the swallow stone of the superior quality in China. Since the Ming and Qing period, Chinese people has made swallow stone into inkstone, which was cherished by ancient scholars. During Qing Emperor Qianlong period, inkstone made of swallow stones was listed by West Qing inkstone spectrum as the best inkstone in China. Since then, many swallow stone crafts, such as paperweight., penholder, pencase, vase, seal, potted landscape have attracted the touists all over the world.Natural fossils of 500 million years plus outstanding designs makes swallow stone crafts unique gifts with Chinese characteristics