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The production process of cloisonné is complicated. As mentioned earlier, there are more than ten main processes such as tire making, filigree, welding, bluing, bluing, and polishing. In fact, there are more than ten main processes such as gold plating.

If even small processes are counted, a product has to go through 108 processes, all of which are refined by hand.

The most amazing craftsmanship must be filigree and dot blue.

Often, the filigree master can twist the soft and resilient flat wire in sevens and eights with just a pair of small tweezers in his hand, bending it back and forth into a dragon body, a crested head, a peony, a plant, etc. orchid……

Then stick flat wires on the copper body one by one, just like the line drawing in painting, it is not drawn with a pen, but expressed with silk.

A bare copper body, after being dressed up by the filigree artist "spiritually and skillfully", will form a variety of beautiful pictures.

Landscape figures, flowers blooming in four seasons, flying dragons and phoenixes, etc., all kinds of pictures come alive, just like a three-dimensional picture scroll without coloring.

In a nutshell, the production process of cloisonne has the following main steps.

The first is design, including shape design, pattern design, color picture design, etc.

Because the lines of the cloisonné pattern are limited by tire shape, silk craft and glaze, too thin or too dense will not work.

Therefore, designers must not only have certain art knowledge and painting ability, but also be familiar with the production process of cloisonné and understand the properties of various raw materials.

Only in this way can we fully consider the characteristics of the production process when creating ideas, so that the product has an overall and harmonious aesthetic feeling.

After the design is completed, the size ratio of the image and the shape of the device is determined, and then the production begins.

Whether the appearance of cloisonné products is beautiful or not depends first on the process of "tire making".

In the past, Chen Wenzhe used the tire casting process to make tires. This is very convenient and can often be formed in one go.

And it is such a convenient craft, not everyone can do it.

Also, this kind of craftsmanship was also lost in the past, and it was only in modern times that it began to recover.

In the past, craftsmen made tires by cutting qualified copper sheets according to the drawings.

They will cut some copper sheets into different fan shapes, or cut them into different circles, and hammer them into copper tires of various shapes.

Taking the bottle as an example, it is formed by hammering and welding in three sections: the mouth, the belly, and the bottle seat.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were tire casting, tire picking, and tire drilling processes.

With the development of modern technology, some of the first tires are now turned, pressed, rolled, and rotated by machinery, and mechanical tires are implemented.

Today's master craftsmen have restored the lost cloisonné method after tens of thousands of experiments.

They use the method of copper casting to make the tire shape and then filigree and glaze.

This kind of cloisonné is characterized by its thick tire shape and complex shape. Except for the part where the blue brocade is burnt, the exposed gold surface is generally larger.

This kind of gold surface is generally gilded with gold, and the works are more brilliant and resplendent.

After the tire is finished, it is filigree and welding wire.

The method of filigree is to use tweezers to pinch (break) the soft, flat, and tough copper wire into various patterns according to the design draft of the pattern, dip it in Bletilla striata, and stick it on the copper body.

The silk filigree technique is ingenious, and it is no easy task for the author to pinch out vivid and vivid pictures with his proficient skills.

After liberation, filigree art has made great progress.

Cloisonne filigree old artists in the capital of gods, each with their own specialties.

For example, Li Qinglu's "You Xia", Shi Wancai's "Ancient Figures", Wang Baocheng's "Chrysanthemum", Lu Yugang's "Bogu" and "Character", etc., all have a high artistic level.

After completing this step, it is the point of blue and welding.

After the pinched carcass is welded, pickled, flattened, and straightened, it enters the bluing process.

The method is to use a blue gun, that is, a small metal shovel, to fill the thinned glaze color into the gaps of the silk workers.

Afterwards, place the blued products in a high-temperature furnace.

After a high temperature of 800 degrees Celsius, the glaze can be melted.

Generally, cloisonne needs to be fired 3 times to complete this process.

Before liberation, the stippled color of cloisonne was dull and monotonous.

After liberation, master craftsmen expanded the expressive power of cloisonne dot blue art by using techniques such as rendering, over-dyeing, drying-dyeing, and pick-dyeing.

In order to express the changing forms of clouds, water, fog and reflections in the water, blue dot artists and silk filigree artists jointly created the no-thread halo method.

That is to pinch out silk workers of different heights, and dazzle with different glaze colors, so that these glaze colors are naturally connected.

After sintering, the high silk is exposed while the low silk is contained under the glaze, which strengthens the adhesion between the copper body and the glaze color, and makes the pattern of the work more colorful.

Only when this step is completed, can a cloisonné work be initially completed.

Then there is polishing, which is commonly known as "grinding".

This is the hardest and most tiring step in the entire cloisonne production process, which is divided into procedures such as stabbing, polishing, and polishing.

First of all, use emery stone to smooth the glaze on the surface of the product that is higher than the filigree, so that the filigree is exposed, and then use yellow stone to grind off the bright and black silk on the glaze.

This is not the end, and then you need to use basswood charcoal dipped in water to grind horizontally and vertically until the product emits a uniform light.

Nowadays, electric grinders are generally used, which saves a lot of manpower, but products with special shapes still need to be grinded by hand.

The final step is gold plating.

This is the last major process in the cloisonne production process.

This is to prevent the oxidation of the product and make the product more durable and more beautiful, and a layer of gold is plated on the surface of the product.

The specific method is to hang the product into the gold liquid tank and turn on the electricity for gold plating. After the completion, take it out and rinse it with clean water, and then dry it with sawdust.

At this time, the whole set of cloisonné production process was announced to be completed, and a cloisonne handicraft was born.

After sorting out the old craftsmanship, especially the cloisonné enamel technique in the early Ming Dynasty, as well as the cloisonne technique, Chen Wenzhe really started to imitate.

This time, he directly started imitating Xuande's cloisonné enamel works.

The Xuande cloisonné enamel pomegranate-pattern lid box is relatively well-known, and its value is not low.

It seems that in 50, the price was [-] pounds.

There are quite a few cloisonné enamelware from the Ming Dynasty, such as jars, bottles, statues, and even slag buckets.

After finishing the lid box, Chen Wenzhe made another ear-piercing vase with copper body and cloisonné enamel lotus pattern.

This is a cloisonné, and the price is not high.

Of course, this is because the preservation is not very good. If it is a perfect product, it is absolutely impossible to sell for a price of hundreds of thousands.

Then there is the cloisonné enamel capricorn pattern slag bucket and a cloisonné enamel flower-bird auspicious animal pattern shop head square statue. The auction prices of these two things are not high.

However, this is not because their artistic value is not high, but because they are not well preserved, which makes the market transaction price lower.

Now Chen Wenzhe is imitating craftsmanship, and there is no need to deliberately destroy or make old, so the works he makes are obviously more exquisite.

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