Stock Photo - 22 December 2021, Saxony, Seiffen: Cornelia Flath stabs chip trees in the show workshop of the ""Seiffner Stübelmacher"". The young master wood turner and wood toy maker has mastered the more than 100-year-old craft technique of cutting chip by chip from a turned lime wood blank using specially ground chisels. Chipwood engraving is a craft that is still mastered by very few specialists in the Erzgebirge region. Like nutcrackers, smoking men and pyramids, the chip tree belongs to the Erzgebirge Christmas. And it is not only in this region that the trees in various sizes decorate the living rooms. The craftsmen send their work all over the world, even in Australia the wooden Christmas decoration finds its lovers. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa. - Seiffen/Saxony/Germany