How to make lacquer on ancient lacquerware

The lacquer on ancient lacquerware was mainly made from the lacquer tree.

The lacquer used to make lacquerware in ancient times was made from a kind of sap secreted by the lacquer tree, which was dried under the sun until it became dehydrated, and then it was cooked lacquer that could be used to make paint. Various arts and crafts with lacquer on their surfaces are called "lacquerware", and to make a lacquerware, it is necessary to go through six steps of tire making, color lacquer, lacquer painting, depiction, ticking and pushing, among which ticking is done by scratching, lifting and other technological steps.

The pattern of lacquer ware is presented to people, and it is a very important part of lacquer ware craft. Those various arts and crafts with lacquer on the surface are called "lacquerware", and the craft of lacquerware first appeared in the Neolithic Age, and by the Song Dynasty, the craft of lacquerware had become very mature, and the folk production of lacquerware was also very common.

Lacquerware craft steps:

1, tire making

Lacquerware craft tires commonly used in two forms of wood and off the tire. The production of wooden lacquerware should be selected fine grain and not deformed high-quality wood to make mortise and tenon seamless wooden tires; while the tire is molded into a billet of clay, plaster, etc., lacquer as a binder, with ramie cloth or silk cloth in the embryo layer by layer framing, to be dry after removing the original tire to leave the embryo of the lacquer cloth, and then through the ash bottom, sanding and other processes to make a solid and lightweight carcass.

2, picking lacquer

The process of picking rhinoceros uses more than two kinds of natural lacquer (natural lacquer which refers to the lacquer carved from the lacquer tree, also known as lacquer, lacquer) in a certain amount of the tire body in a regular, hierarchical alternation of lacquer accumulated to a certain thickness. Lacquer is harvested from the lacquer tree. Every year, on the day of three volts, lacquer farmers use mussel shells to break open the bark of the tree and make a cut in the tree like a willow leaf blade, and a milky-white liquid oozes out of the tree, slowly flowing down the willow leaf opening into a bamboo tube, which is then allowed to be made into lacquer by experienced craftsmen.

3, lacquer painting

Every piece of lacquerware rhinoceros artifacts are lacquered with two colors of lacquer, black and red, at least five red layers and five black layers, and each color layer has to be lacquered dozens of times to cover the lower layer, and the thickness of lacquer should be the same for each time.

4, depiction

The pattern is depicted on the outside of the beautiful pattern of picking rhinoceros craft, and then picking with a knife to carve, because of the clear section of the knife, the layers of lacquer pattern is mostly in a lively, flowing freely back to the clouds back hooks composed of.

5, pick engraving

Pick engraving is one of the important steps in the lacquer picking rhinoceros process, by lifting, scratching and other process steps, so that its red and black patterns in front of people.

6, push the light

Push the light is the last step of the lacquer pick rhinoceros process, with the old house on the cinderblock powder finely polished lacquer pick rhinoceros artifacts in every corner, with the appropriate strength, hundreds of times of polishing to polish the brilliant lacquer pick rhinoceros artifacts.