Chapter 52: Lacquerware (3)

The diversity of decoration techniques gives Fuzhou the graceful and luxurious beauty of lacquerware. And this kind of beauty, in the final analysis, lies in the artistic beauty and spiritual beauty of lacquer art itself.

The magnificence of the color and the solidity of the material create its solemn temperament, and the reborn process makes it lightweight and easy to carry.

There are two types of production methods: detached lacquerware and wooden tires.

Debridement is to clay, gypsum, wood mold and other products for the blank tire, and then with summer cloth or silk cloth and lacquer on the billet tire layer by layer mounting, after the shade drying, after breaking or taking off the original tire, leaving the shape of the lacquered cloth, and then after the ash, grinding, lacquer grinding, applied a variety of decorative patterns, it has become a bright and gorgeous "reborn lacquerware" handicrafts.

The wooden tire is mainly made of hard wood such as nanmu, camphor wood, beech wood, etc., without being reborn, directly painted, and the process is the same as that of the deborn cloth blank. There are as many as forty or fifty processes for a handicraft, and some even reach more than 100.

There are eight types of materials used to make lacquerware.

Natural lacquer urushiol is greater than 49%, heating reduction is less than 41%, nitrogen content and gum content 6% to 14%; Surface drying time is 3 hours to 5 hours.

The linen cloth is made of linen fiber, and the new linen cloth is washed and pulped first, and then beaten soft after drying; Small utensils or small figurines can be made of silk and silk.

The green tiles of the local traditional buildings of Fuzhou, after grinding, drifting, and sifting, are divided into coarse, medium and fine three, and are blended with raw lacquer for lacquer ash to be used as fillers.

The wood is made of nanmu, beech, jujube, etc., and the wood should be cooked, dehydrated, degummed and other treatments before processing the wood tire.

Oil: raw oil, camphor oil, cooked tung oil.

Lacquer pigments silver vermilion, dansha, realgar, stone blue, stone green, etc.

Metal materials such as gold foil, silver foil, aluminum foil, etc., or these foils are then sieved into powder, which can be embedded, sprinkled, pasted, and painted.

Inlay materials such as luoden, bone stone, treasure, eggshell, etc.

Plaster molds are molded first

Sculpture is designed to shape people, animals, or utensils out of clay.

Flip molds: Male or female molds of sculptures are reproduced with plaster.

Dry the plaster mold and set aside.

The mounting cloth is deborn and scraped to make the base

The release agent is mixed with half of the white clay and the fine clay of the pond to form a release agent, and the surface of the mold is evenly coated.

The laminating cloth is mixed with raw lacquer and flour to the appropriate viscosity, which is used as an adhesive for the mounting linen, scraped and applied to the linen cloth and pasted on the mold.

Scrape the ash with raw lacquer and tile ash, and scrape the coarse ash and medium ash successively.

After peeling and demoulding paint ash is dry, use a wooden hammer to lightly tap the gypsum male mold, or use a sharp knife to peel off the gypsum negative mold.

After suturing and then scraping the gray yin cloth tire for local suturing, then scrape the middle ash, then scrape the fine ash, and scrape the ash directly from the yang cloth tire.

Grinding ash is smooth and smooth with grinding stones, water sandpaper, etc.

Then the paint is pushed off.

Rough paint is applied evenly all over with push varnish.

Repair sensitivity: use lacquer ash to repair concave and convex defects.

Grinding lacquer is sensitive to grinding into a smooth lacquer surface with fine water sandpaper.

Paint the polish paint evenly with black push paint or color push varnish.

Rub back with more than 1000# water sandpaper grinding, and then push and rub the green gloss.

Finally, decorate it.

Painted decoration such as gold painting, needle carving, gold halo, copying and painting.

Grinding decoration such as inlay, sunken flower, change coating, table filling, etc.

Decorative techniques include picking, gold painting, engraving, elastic dyeing, halo gold, gold color, hooking, copying, ink color, brocade, table flower, carving, inlay, dark flower, needle carving, flashing, painting, imitation color, etc.

The background color of black lacquer can bring out the richness of gold, the crystal of silver, and the anti-corrosion and anti-corrosion lacquerware can ensure that the color remains unchanged for a long time. The transformation of lacquerware from a pliable summer cloth to a hard lacquerware is a metamorphosis.

Fuzhou reborn lacquerware is an art treasure with a unique national style and strong local characteristics, which is developed by inheriting the excellent lacquer culture of ancient China. It has many categories that are second to none in the national lacquerware industry, such as the large lacquer painting screen, painted vase, reborn antique bronze lion displayed in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and the small ones such as smoking sets, tea sets, bowls, plates, plates, cans, etc., with a total of more than 1,200 varieties of 18 categories; It is strong and lightweight, unique in shape, rich in decoration techniques, bright and harmonious in color, which can be described as a collection of beauty and has extraordinary artistic charm.