Under the small talk, Li Yi had already made the first bowl tire with the stamping mechanism.

The effect of the stamping machine is very good, the processed gold sheet is placed on the mold, and under the extrusion, the gold sheet becomes a bowl-shaped carcass.

Looking at the golden bowl tire, Wu Lei couldn't help but exclaim on the side: "This is a real golden rice bowl!" ”

This bowl tire alone weighs at least half a catty.

Half a catty of gold, that is, hundreds of thousands!

Even in a wealthy family, it is a luxury to be able to eat with such an expensive bowl.

But this is only the first step in making cloisonné goldware, and it is also the easiest step.

Starting from the filigree is the difficulty of making cloisonné.

After bringing the 1mm-thick gold sheet to the table, Li Yi used a ruler and a pen to draw a rectangle as large as possible on the top of the gold sheet.

Then, he took the scissors and cut off the irregular part of the outer part of the gold sheet, trimming it into a regular rectangle.

Then, he used scissors to cut the rectangular gold pieces into 1mm thick gold wires.

Seeing Li Yi's operation of trimming the gold wire, Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua in the rear were a little moved.

They were surprised, because Li Yi pruned so fast, as if he didn't use his eyes to see at all, and only relied on his instincts.

But the gold wire that Li Yi trimmed out was very uniform and the thickness was the same.

It made them a little incredulous.

When the expert group was reproducing, they also wasted the boss's effort in this step of shredding, and returned to the furnace countless times, and the yield rate was less than 20%.

But every gold wire cut out by Li Yi is a finished product that can be processed, and the yield rate has reached 100%!

However, that's not all.

Li Yi took out a set of wire pullers, clamped the gold wire with a wire puller, stuffed the gold wire into the hole of the wire puller, and pulled up the gold wire by hand.

There are holes of different sizes in the drawing plate, and the gold wire can be stuffed into these holes, and the gold wire can be drawn into thinner and thinner gold wire with wire pullers.

Behind, Wu Lei and the others stood together, watching Li Yi's operation curiously, muttering quietly.

"Is this what the Golden Silk is going to do?"

"It's the first time I've seen how gold wire is made."

"The gold wire is so thin! What if it breaks? ”

"The gold flowers on those bracelets are made of this kind of gold wire, right?"

The audience in the live broadcast room also watched the novelty, and many people saw for the first time how gold wire was made.

But when Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua saw this scene, they felt shocked!

Li Yi is actually drawing gold silk by hand?

And it's not broken yet?

Pull out such a thin gold wire by hand? How did he do it?

In the past, when the expert group was reproducing, in order to produce gold wire that meets the size, a number of professional wire pressing machines and wire drawing machines were specially imported.

With the help of a machine, they were able to pull out the slender gold wire that could be used.

But Li Yi actually used a wire pull plate and a wire puller, and pulled out the slender gold wire by hand!

Is he an immortal?

How is this possible?

But Li Yi was pulling the golden wire unhurriedly in front of them, without any cover, and they could see it clearly.

Those slender gold wires were really pulled out by Li Yi by hand!

This made Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua feel that their three views were about to collapse.

Can manpower do this?

Li Yi didn't know what they were shocked.

But even if he knew, Li Yi would only laugh it off.

Pulling a 1mm gold wire is really nothing, just have a hand.

Those gold and silver craftsmen in the palace, the gods who play filigree inlay, can manually pull the gold wire to below 0.07mm!

Even the thinnest can be pulled up to a diameter of 0.02mm!

You must know that the diameter of human hair is also 0.08mm, and the gold wires used by those gold and silver craftsmen are all thinner than hair.

Compared with them, Li Yixue's work of pulling gold silk is still superficial, and he can't even get started.

However, it is still enough to give cloisonné filigree.

After pulling the gold wires, Li Yi took them back to the tablet press, pressed them into flat sheets, and used a hand hammer to knock the gold wires straight.

This step is to facilitate the subsequent filigree to break better, and also to gather more glaze when dotting blue.

Subsequently, he cut the other thicknesses of gold into gold wires and pressed them into flat sheets.

Next, he used tweezers to hold the gold wire and break it into different patterns.

The hardest part of the filigree is the work.

The filigree requires regular workmanship, and the shape of the pinched out should be uniform, so that the effect of blue will be clean and tidy in the later stage.

Generally, when apprentices learn filigree, they have to practice breaking work for at least a few months.

Li Yi was in the dream space, and it took half a year to enter the door.

The camera approached Li Yi and took a close-up.

Standing in the distance, Li Yi's movements could no longer be seen clearly, so everyone looked at the monitor carried by the staff on the side, which showed the details of Li Yi's filigree pattern.

Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua looked at it very seriously, they were comparing Li Yi's skills with the difference between the original expert group and the reproduction.

After comparison, they were surprised to find that Li Yi's skill level was much more professional than that of the expert group!

The filigree technique used by Li Yi is completely different from that reproduced by the expert group.

He used a double-hook and double-line filigree method to produce a very plump and gorgeous lotus ornament, and the pattern was very full.

Looking at Li Yi's subtle methods, Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua exchanged glances, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes.

This filigree technique saves more than half of the time compared with the single-wire filigree method used by the expert group, and the effect of the finished product is much better than that of the expert group.

They are all a little skeptical, this should be the real technique of cloisonné filigree in history!

Soon, Li Yi broke all the filigree patterns on a bowl.

In addition to the entwined lotus, there are also a variant of the bowl mouth Kui Long Hui pattern, the lotus petal pattern at the bottom of the bowl, the four big characters of longevity on the bowl wall, and the inscription of the descendants of Yongbao at the bottom.

Among them, the four-character seal inscription of "descendants Yongbao" in the bottom is the core of this set of bowls.

The first three characters are taken from the seal script font inscribed by Qianlong himself, and the last treasure character has been carefully designed into a special font by cloisonne craftsmen.

The word "Bao" contains the meaning of "king" and "800,000 longevity", which just coincided with the happy event of Qianlong's 80th birthday at that time.

In particular, the arc of the last stroke is very special, and the conventional seal script is different, it is the beginning of the pen with 10,000 characters, like ingots.

Therefore, if you don't know this meaning, in the absence of a reference, a replica of this set of bowls will be seen at a glance.

Once all the patterns have been broken, the next step is to weld them to the gold tire.

This step is also the difficulty.

It is not easy to make the pattern firmly stick to the carcass and not fall off during the calcination process, and it will not leave traces.

When the expert group reproduced it, they tried countless adhesive materials, using chemical glue, biological glue, and even wire binding, but the effect was not satisfactory.

At the end of the calcined carcass, the bond between the pattern and the carcass is always not strong, there will be gaps, and it is easy to fall off.

Therefore, when Li Yi took this step, Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua looked at it very seriously.

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