This course can help you understand the specific process of lacquer making, and unveil the special technology that is unfamiliar to you. The teacher will take you to observe, recognize, understand, express lacquer art from the perspective of a modern generation, and complete lacquer ware making before the end of class schedule. The lacquer artworks you make can work for daily life, enabling the return of traditional lacquer art to real life.
This course can not only help you finish the mysterious lacquer ware, but also stimulate your strong desire in designing and making lacquer art, and let you master this fascinating national handicraft. From now on, approach lacquer and fall in love with it! Try to make these lacquer ware. Starting from learning how to boil paste, and make brushes, bodiless lacquered bowls, porcelain cups, leather lacquered bracelets and wooden lacquered bowls, etc., you can eventually make your own lacquer wares!
1.1 Lacquer, tree and people
1.2 Where urushi comes from
1.3 Traditional lacquer reaping method
1.4 Time for lacquer reaping
1.5 Examine the Lacquer
Chapter 2 Roles of urushi in ancient society
2.1 Roles of urushi in ancient society
Chapter 3 Detailed guideline of bodiless lacquer making technique
3.1 Bodiless lacquer making technique Step 1
3.2 Bodiless lacquer making technique Step 2
3.3 Bodiless lacquer making technique Step 3
3.4 Bodiless lacquer making technique Step 4
3.5 Bodiless lacquer making technique Step 5
3.6 Bodiless lacquer making technique Step 6
3.7 Bodiless lacquer making technique Step 7
Chapter 4 A sketch of lacquer studio
4.1 Make brushes with a knife
4.2 Starch paste preparation
4.3 Zhang Zhigang and Lacquer
4.4 Urushi Workshop
4.5 The inheritance of urushi
Chapter 5 Varied-bodied lacquer ware making
5.1 Lacquering technology of wooden bowl
5.2 Porcelain lacquer ware
5.3 leather lacquer ware
Finalexam
