factory-hewn

Updated: May 27, 2025

I think of all the green things I have loved of malachite in matrix and table-top; of jade, not factory-hewn baubles, but age-mellowed signets, fashioned by lovers of their craft, and seasoned by the toying yellow fingers of generations of forgotten Chinese emperors jade, as Dunsany would say, of the exact shade of the right color.

William Beebe - Edge of the Jungle