Oil paper umbrella, three words, oil is the first, and the oil of the oil paper umbrella brush is tung oil. Tung oil is the oil extracted from tung oil seeds, which has the effect of waterproofing and antiseptic. Cheng Dehu opened a small jar of pure tung oil for us, which tasted a bit like rosin.

In Taoist culture, tung oil is regarded as a thing to drive away evil spirits and avoid evil, and wild ghosts and spirits will flee away when they hear it. Brush tung oil on the surface of the lint paper umbrella, which is good for rain, and very strong and tough.

It turns out that a lot of tung oil was used in ancient buildings, and the gold bricks of the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City are soaked and polished with tung oil, showing a special moisturizing feeling. In addition, it is used for shipbuilding, coffins, etc.

However, there are not many uses of tung oil in China, and most of them are exported. Foreigners like to use tung oil to paint wooden houses and furniture, because tung oil is a natural paint, the taste is harmless to the human body, and chemical paint will corrode wooden furniture, tung oil not only does not harm the furniture, but also anti-corrosion, moisture-proof, is a natural skin care product for wooden furniture.

Because it is mainly used for export, the commodity trading price of tung oil has risen a lot in recent years, and a ton of pure finished tung oil costs 30,000 yuan or 40,000 yuan. "It also means that if you brush an umbrella with very high purity tung oil, the cost of an umbrella is 10-20 yuan for tung oil alone."

"Umbrella sharpening", a simple three words, is the foundation of an oil-paper umbrella, which often requires all the labor of an umbrella maker for a day or several days.

It is said that a good umbrella, the bamboo used to make the umbrella bone must grow on the same bamboo, there is the meaning of "the same bamboo, wrapped inside", so the oil paper umbrella is also known as the Baofu umbrella, hanging on the beam can protect the safety of the family.

From the perspective of making an umbrella, the selection of materials and the position of the bamboo joints are unified, so as to ensure the coordination of the umbrella bone when the umbrella is opened and closed.

"Mounting the umbrella surface", simply put, is to glue the cut paper to the skeleton, trim and shape, but it is also very particular about kung fu. A good master's framed umbrella can barely see the interface. After the umbrella surface is done, you can proceed to the next step.

Next, paint the flowers and brush the oil. Oil paper umbrella, three words, oil is the first, and the oil of the oil paper umbrella brush is tung oil. Tung oil is the oil extracted from tung oil seeds, which has the effect of waterproofing and antiseptic.

The materials of the oil-paper umbrella are very particular, the above good peach blossom paper is the umbrella surface, soaked in persimmon paint, and pasted on the umbrella bone one by one. Persimmon lacquer is the persimmon juice squeezed by pounding the persimmon when the persimmon is green, which is both sticky and will not stick the peach blossom paper.

If you want to make an oil-paper umbrella, the first step is "No. Bamboo Material". The bamboo used must be grown for more than five years, which requires both strong elasticity and sufficient toughness.

The bamboo used to make oil-paper umbrellas in different places is also different, the Yuhang area generally uses the deep mountain old bamboo of the Shunan Bamboo Sea, while Fujian and other places use the green mountain old bamboo on the edge of the northern Fujian Mountain.

After the bamboo material is treated by necessary technologies such as water immersion and sun exposure, it is sawn into a bamboo tube of suitable specifications. When sawing, keep turning over to prevent the bamboo tube from burring. Then the surface of the bamboo tube is "scraped green", and finally the smooth and translucent bamboo tube is selected to split it, drilled, assembled, threaded, and connected with the umbrella handle umbrella head to make the skeleton.

Choose a special handmade cotton paper or peach blossom paper with strong tension for the umbrella surface, soak it in persimmon lacquer, and glue it to the umbrella bone one by one. Fine seams, fine wrinkles, the whole process requires a lot of thought and time.

In addition to manual skills, the climate also affects the flatness of the paper. Scorching sun and rainy weather are not good times to mount the umbrella, as abnormal temperatures can cause the umbrella to bend or shell. And -- >>