Now every time we go to a scenic spot, we can always see cloisonne handicrafts with a dozen dollars to dozens of dollars. The most colorful cloisonne bracelet is alive and dead, wide and narrow. ...

When I was a child, there was no beautiful cloisonne bracelet in any small public office, so it was not a problem to wear a row.

Of course, there are more cloisonne in our life, such as Jingtai Road in Dongcheng District, Jingtai Station on Metro 14 Line, and even Jingtai Hot Pot in Old Beijing. ...

Look at the palace porcelain displayed in the Forbidden City, Wang Fu and major museums, and you can always see the shadow of cloisonne.

Different from other handicrafts, cloisonne is exclusive to the royal family, representing the nobility of identity. It is understood that there are more than 8,000 cloisonne cultural relics in the Forbidden City and more than 2,800 in the Forbidden City in Taiwan.

Cloisonne is a combination of technology, carving, inlaying, metallurgy, glass melting, etc. From design to tire making, wire pinching, blue light, polishing, gold plating and other more than a dozen processes, the saying of "one cloisonne, ten official kilns" with jade embellishment, shiny jewelry, exquisite porcelain and brilliant gold and silver appeared.

Exquisite and elegant ornamentation, resplendent colors, colorful charm, unique national style, coupled with the exclusive noble temperament of the court, cloisonne is often given as a national gift and is a well-deserved "diplomatic star".

The first national gift of New China is cloisonne table lamp, smoking set and gold lacquer box. This is the work designed by the team led by Lin.

These cloisonne national gifts, large and small, are all made by masters of arts and crafts. They are unique in design and elegant in shape, but one piece is worth millions.

In contrast, the difference is big.

Speaking of how to distinguish cloisonne, we should also mention one of its "fatal" shortcomings-sand holes.

During the firing process of cloisonne, sand holes are formed, and the gas in the glaze is exhausted. It can be said that this is "natural" and still exists in the production process, but it is too small to be seen by the naked eye.

Therefore, the shortcoming of sand holes has become a good way to distinguish cloisonne.

Generally, low-priced cloisonne bracelets and bracelets on the market are all made of low-temperature glaze. Compared with authentic enamel powder, it may be brightly colored, but it lacks the graininess of cloisonne, and there will be no sand holes fired at high temperature.

Cloisonne, also known as cloisonne with copper tires, was named after its prevalence in Jingdezhen in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the enamels used were blue.

Cloisonne uses copper tire as the bottom, uses tweezers as a pen, extrudes flexible flat copper wire into various patterns, and uses an adhesive prepared by bletilla striata to adhere the copper wire to the copper tire, thus obtaining a copper tire wrapped with copper wire.

The next step is that visiting heads of state and visitors to major exhibitions can participate in the process on the spot-blue dots.

With a straw as a pen, various enamel colors are lit in each small grid composed of cloisonne, which can be used for firing.

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One thing, the improvement of order of magnitude, is often times more difficult. This is the case with twisted silk, sticky silk and blue dots. These are very delicate tasks, purely manual, which require patience and care. On this basis, the thickness of the dot blue, as well as the color gradient and level change of the pattern, can't be controlled without power.

But this is not all, because the glaze melts and collapses during firing, and its volume becomes smaller than that of copper wire. So we should continue to point blue, burn blue, point blue, burn blue ... and repeat this three or four times until the glaze is flush or higher than the copper wire.

And, of course, the final polishing and gold plating. Circular polishers can also be assisted by machines. Other shapes, such as square and flat, can only be polished by hand all the time, and they are still polished from coarse to fine for 8- 10 times until the work is no longer dull and the color is fresh. This step is over.

The above are several major production processes of cloisonne, and the details certainly don't stop there.

It can be said that a seemingly ordinary work is hand-made step by step, day by day and month by month with countless ingenuity.

On the other hand, most of these seemingly inexpensive cloisonne handicrafts on the market are mass-produced by making molds, and most of them are not cloisonne in a strict sense.

Some of them are more conscientious, and most of them are semi-manual. The cost is reduced and the price is affordable, but the finished product is definitely not as exquisite as the works that condense their painstaking efforts.