When in doubt, trawl YouTube - Beijing-style Diao Qi lacquer
Re: Cinnabar - Lac? Lacquer? Wax? Plastic? -- beadiste Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: beadiste Mail author
04/19/2015, 18:11:12

Three short videos, containing such interesting tidbits as that the shop's humid basement is the lacquer workshop, they can only apply lacquer twice a day, that it takes a lacquer tree 5 years to produce a kilo of paint, that machines carve some of the less expensive designs, and that the red coloring is a "rare natural mineral."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZv5NvxDGR0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_TWbtKmrOs
(if you can only stand to watch one, episode 2 is most informative

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Ebv5ZUCCs



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