A round mirror in a rectangular room is a decision, not an accident. Every other line in a bedroom is straight - the walls, the door, the window, the bed, the drawers directly below it - and a circle is the one shape that refuses to join in. That refusal is exactly what makes it work: the eye goes to it immediately, because it is the only thing in the room not lining up with anything else.
The difficulty is at the frame. A circle has no corners to hide a joint in and no flat run to interrupt, so the carving has to travel continuously around the whole rim and still look composed from every angle. There is nowhere for a carver to rest and no natural place to start or stop.
Our artisans lay the pattern out around the full circumference before cutting, marking where the scrolls will turn and where the roses fall so the rhythm closes exactly on itself. The carving is then worked around the ring in one continuous progression rather than side by side, which is the only way to keep the depth even the whole way round.
The pierced crest above is cut separately and shaped to sit on the circle without flattening it - lifting the composition upward while leaving the circle whole.