Difference between rhinoceros skin paint and common paint

The difference between rhinoceros skin paint and ordinary paint lies in the difference in technology. The process of rhinoceros skin paint includes paint cutting, paint extrusion, molding, paint mixing, painting, plastering, cloth mounting (repeating the above three steps), demoulding, plastering and polishing fetal bones repeatedly, painting, punching, painting, gilding and painting.

Rhinoceros skin paint, also known as Rhinoceros skin paint, Xipi paint, Tiger skin paint and Boluo paint, originated in the Tang Dynasty and was very popular in the Song Dynasty. The pattern produced depends on surface wrinkling and fluctuation of dot pattern.

The method is to mix 65% raw lacquer and egg white emulsion to make thick lacquer, use tools as starting materials, make concave-convex surface when the lacquer is semi-dry, then paint it with different colors in layers, dry it and polish it. Due to the different paint layers, different patterns can appear after polishing, resulting in gorgeous colors. Because it is usually filled with red, yellow and black, the texture is often like rhinoceros skin and tiger skin, so it is often called "rhinoceros skin" or "tiger skin paint".