technical type

Father Ji's teaching is not systematic and specific, there is no complete set of summarizing experience, and summarizing all relevant knowledge in this area. The daily teaching is basically that he takes Ji Mo to make things, and simply gives it to Ji Mo If it is difficult for him to do it himself, he will let Ji Mo watch from the side. Some skills need to be explained, and when he does it, he will let Ji Mo come and watch.

Just like burning blue, there are some things in it that he will tell Ji Mo right away, but there are some things that he has to postpone until later. is likely to be forgotten.

But it doesn't matter, he doesn't just do this kind of thing once, he will show Ji Mo the next time he does it, and it won't be difficult to tell it again.

Generally speaking, Father Ji belongs to the kind of master who can't give lectures. What he teaches is a hammer and a stick. Sometimes two parts that are completely unrelated will be taught together because of the In the production of the same jewelry.

And the same knowledge is repeated repeatedly, because the difficulty is on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is because it is easy to be confused. This confusion also has the knowledge point itself, but it is more about father Ji learning from the two sons. The experience they got, especially Ji Erge, was always confused when he was here, so he firmly remembered that when he talked to Ji Mo, he would repeat it here a lot, even if he knew that Ji Mo was smarter than Ji Mo, he would But still teach Ji Mo according to the former's lesson.

Regarding this, Ji Mo can only say that Second Brother Ji is not a fool.

In the case of too many ineffective narrations, it took Ji Mo a longer time to complete the summary of the skills required for making jewelry.

The first part is mostly filigree techniques, which are divided into two types. One is the way Ji Mo once saw Ji Fu making jewelry boxes. The metal wires are twisted into various flower shapes and added to the surface of the utensils to make Its shape is plump and has a three-dimensional sense of relief.

The other is flat filling. Now leave enough grooves on the surface of the utensils according to the flower shape required in the drawings, and then fill the metal wires in the order of these grooves little by little, such as outlining the flower shape on paper. , delicate and meticulous, the surface is still a flat surface after completion, and will not protrude or sag.

If we want to talk about the disadvantages of this technique, it is that the unevenness itself is easy to deform, easy to hide dirt, difficult to clean, and the surface is not bright enough, so it will inevitably appear a bit dull, with a certain nostalgic atmosphere.

This is also its characteristic. It cannot be said that it is not beautiful, but compared with the current pursuit of bright appearance, it is a bit less bright after all.

The second part is gold art, including gold cladding, gilding, gold pasting, gilding, bronzing, etc., all of which use processed gold as a certain color to add to jewelry and utensils, thereby adding luster and luster, following burning Like Lan, they are all trying to make jewelry and utensils look better.

The skills in this area are different, with different advantages and disadvantages. Strictly speaking, the only common point is the use of gold, which is generally classified as gold art by Ji Mo.

Originally, he wanted to put burning blue in this category, because burning blue itself is also to "add color" to jewelry and utensils, so it is not a problem to classify it like this. The biggest problem is that burning blue is unique and does not need to be used. Instead of gold, a specially prepared blue material is used, which seems a bit weird to include in it, so it is taken out separately and counted as one of the other parts.

The third part is flower art, including burning blue, which is unique no matter how you look at it. There are a total of more than a dozen sub-categories of production techniques, such as emerald emerald, inlaying treasures, gold carving (flower grabbing), flower rolling, cutting flowers, and chisel carving. (chiseled flowers), Lahua (tired silk, saved silk) and so on.

Among them, the principles of carving gold and cutting flowers are similar. The difference lies in the difference between carving knives and cutting knives. If such tools are different and different classifications are made, it seems redundant, but in fact there is a principle. Different knives are left behind. The traces are different, and the patterns made by different tools are also different. This subtle difference may require professionals to distinguish, but when two different patterns are put together, the chooser can always feel the difference. Aesthetic difference.

Besides, burning blue, emerald emerald, and embedding treasures, these three, in Ji Mo's view, can be counted as a single category like gold art, and they are all skills that add luster to the original production.

The main difficulty of burning indigo lies in the indigo material and the heat. The former is mainly a matter of the secret recipe, so it is not difficult to learn it. The latter is really not a difficult problem for Ji Mo. Many of the previous skills are useful As far as the fire is concerned, he has accumulated sufficient experience in this area. Not to mention that it is so mysterious to accurately judge the temperature of the flame at a glance, but use his fingers to get close to feel whether this is the temperature he needs, or whether he can do it. arrived.

The temperature seems to be divided into intervals in his feelings. Needless to say, there are classifications such as high, medium, and low, and there are also intervals such as 0 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30. The temperature can be distinguished through the most subtle touch Whether it is suitable or not, this item of heat is the least thing to worry about, as long as you pick up the previous experience and combine the needs you have learned now, you can naturally master it.

Ji Mo has heard about the technique of emerald emerald for a long time. In modern times, it is because the kingfisher feathers used as the raw material for emerald emerald are about to become extinct that people pay attention to it. In this world, kingfishers are never extinct. bird.

The word "cui" is selected for its color, that is, the emerald color of the feathers is used as an embellishment for jewelry and utensils, so as to make them more brilliant.

Due to certain color changes of feathers, various changes according to time and light are difficult to imitate by ordinary burning blue or gold art, so there is a skill of diancui, from the feather color of birds Generate associations and add them to jewelry and utensils.

It is called Diancui, and it is not only the feathers of birds, but also the phosphorous powder of butterflies, as well as the inherent colors of some creatures in nature, including the thin layer on the armor of some lin-like creatures. .

In short, the range of materials for this skill is much wider, and it is impossible to see any possibility of being rare because of extinction.

Of course, the difficulty of this craft still exists and will always exist.

"I never knew that to learn how to make jewelry, you also need to know a little bit of biology."

When Ji Mo learned Diancui for the first time, he was almost shocked. What kind of genius can think of this method. It can be said that he will do everything for the sake of beauty.

This is the same as many people think that animal fur is good-looking, so they directly peel off the animal fur to make clothes. The "cui" used by Diancui is almost peeling the skin. Birds can live without some feathers, and butterflies are basically difficult to survive. Under the blade.

Butterflies with their wings cut off are still alive if they are still butterflies.

This is simply a different kind of cruelty, but compared to the lin-like creatures, uh, I don’t know the ladies and ladies of those rich and noble families, how much do they know that the beautiful colors on some beautiful jewelry actually come from some kind of The carapace of an ugly looking insect?

When Ji Mo first learned to peel off these things without hurting the insects themselves, he thought he was doing a surprise experiment in the biology laboratory of the school. Look, even a mask is provided, for fear that the phosphor powder will fly between breaths. It's like none survived.

The extremely sharp small blade gently scratches across the upper layer of the carapace that has been removed, and peels off a thin and nearly uniform "membrane" along the curvature of the carapace, and then cuts this layer of colored film according to needs Adding, splicing to a certain part of a certain jewelry or utensils to form a pattern, viewed from different angles, the colors emitted by this layer of film are completely different, and any composition similar to gradient colors can be achieved. It's really amazing.

The peeling and adding of phosphor powder is even easier. After gluing and powdering, you can see that the beautiful color of butterfly wings also appears on the jewelry after completion.

The other is similar to dragonfly wings, using the unique texture and light color of the wings as colors on jewelry and utensils, or replacing the texture of tulle with a thin layer of transparent glue on the back , no color remains after drying, but it increases the hardness of the wings themselves, so that they are not so fragile, but still retain the beauty brought by this fragile feeling in terms of perception.

The light colors are difficult to adjust, but they are indeed beautiful. The home jewelry is like the fluttering wings of a butterfly hairpin, with a kind of light and elegant beauty.

Compared with burning blue, it can be said that Diancui uses more and wider raw materials, and at the same time, it is more difficult to make and takes more time.

In order to teach Ji Mo this, Father Ji specially prepared some raw materials. He first made a green hairpin, which almost became the treasure of the shop. The old customers liked it, but they couldn’t afford it. Expensive, no, too expensive.

It was a customer from another place, who was attracted to the store by Ji Mo's marketing strategies. When he saw this emerald hairpin, he asked the price, and sold it without saying a word, saying that it was so cheap that he made a profit.

Later, he also ordered a few emerald hairpins from Father Ji, and the price was different due to the difference in material, weight and flower shape, but in short, he still felt that it was very profitable.

Ji's father likes customers with vision and wealth like him. Fortunately, he is not the one who negotiates business, otherwise he would not even need the cost of work, just for those few nice words.

Time cost is also cost!

In this regard, Ji Mo is as shrewd as Brother Ji. No matter what, the price cannot be lowered, it is already the lowest.

When the final delivery was made, Ji Mo mixed his apprentice's craftsmanship into it. Anyway, Father Ji saw it and said it was okay, so he didn't stop him from selling it, so he sold it directly and bought it with the money he got. It is right to practice with materials.

Brother Ji glanced at Ji Mo's emerald emerald hairpin, which had obviously been repaired, and didn't say a word. No matter how he sold it, his money would be indispensable, so he would sell one more piece, since most people wouldn't be able to see it anyway.

He is used to treating defective products as bargains or gifts, and his acceptance is very good.