Technical background analysis of (1) wood grain gold

(Prerequisite statement: This article only introduces the background of wood grain gold, and the pictures are intuitive, not for any commercial use. If there is something wrong, please contact the backstage to delete it. )

Wood grain gold is one of the manifestations of traditional Japanese metal technology, which can be traced back to17th century and has a profound historical and cultural background. However, it is worth pondering that the development of wood grain gold, a symbolic national symbol, is not as impressive as expected in today's artistic environment.

Wood grain gold is not a kind of metal art that blindly stretches and extends the metal size, but a kind of metal art with internal color synthesis. It can't be unfamiliar to the world because it is not common, and it can be used in a small range. It should not stagnate with the death of the samurai class, but should be regenerated and merged in a new way, which requires us to consider both the development factors and technical factors that affect it when studying and thinking about the development of wood grain gold.

Wood grain gold technology interweaves lacquer art with metal characteristics. As a practical metal material, it has extremely high historical and cultural value. For hundreds of years, from the protection of knives to the manufacture of smoking pipes and utensils, to today's distinctive jewelry art, the types have changed from single to multiple, and the metal manufacturing technology has been continuously reformed and innovated. Its development process has witnessed the changes of people's life needs and aesthetic tastes, and it has a distinct Japanese national flavor and the flavor of the times.

However, in today's environment, wood grain gold is facing a severe development situation, the main reasons are: 1, there is no mature automatic production for complex and rigorous wood grain metal production, and the selection of metal plates has certain limitations. 2. The artistic style of wood grain gold jewelry follows the tradition and is still modified on the original basis, which is gradually drifting away from the contemporary aesthetic taste. 3. The influence of wood grain gold has not been exerted in the market, and the consumer groups lack the basic knowledge of wood grain gold technology.

(The picture on the left shows wood grain gold, knife guard/the picture on the right shows the rhinoceros skin lacquer cover box of Ming Wanli lacquerware)

Therefore, in order to inherit and develop this excellent metal technology, we must correctly sort out the relationship between the inheritance, innovative application and market development of wood grain gold. This requires us to first sort out this traditional process and make innovations by drawing on its good advantages. Secondly, we should learn from the advantages of foreign development model of wood grain gold, and at the same time integrate modern social aesthetic taste and contemporary design concepts into wood grain gold jewelry to enrich the artistic form of wood grain gold and make it adapt to and develop in modern and contemporary life and artistic environment.