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◎ Body Production |
The production for the body of lacquerware is called as body production.
Based on different materials it used, bodies of lacquerware can be divided into wooden and metal (iron, copper, aluminum, tin, gold, silver), bodiless (cloth), paper, leather, clay, porcelain, bamboo, wax, synthetic (resin, plastic, bakelite) and so on. Bodiless lacquerware was first seen in the Tomb of Chu country of Warring States, popular in the Han Dynasty; pottery body is made by pottery; copper wire body is woven into by copper wires, as it called "copper tire"; leather body is made by cow leather, on which it painted with lacquer and painting sculptures on the leather. The armor and shield unearthed from the Tomb of Chu country are leather bodies.
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| Wooden body |
Wooden body uses wood as the body of lacquerware, as the wood is easy to paint, and harder to be eroded after painted. This type of body has been originated earlier and is still in use today.
Golden lacquer mosaic wooden bodies are generally select finest pine, white pine or basswood, because pine wood is more stable, not easy to crack or go out of shape. However, pine wood is soft, and the texture pattern also not so beautiful and elegant, after several processes, the wood texture can be hidden, it may be described as "enhance advantage and avoid disadvantage".
Usually the woods and plates selected as lacquerware bodies should processed with three to six months natural drying and twice highbake, before it reaches a predetermined water standards (moisture content below 12%). |
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| Bodiless |
Bodiless is the main body besides the wooden body, which appeared in the earlier time, and has been discovered in the tomb of Chu country of the Warring States.
Bodiless is commonly known as cloth body, grass cloth body, and also known as “dry lacquer”. Its inner body is made by plaster, and the object of body is made by linen and lacquer ash, then using linen glue scraping ash and painting with lacquer layer by layer. The original body is removed after the outer cloth shell has dried in the shade, which process is called “bodiless”.
Bodiless can be divided into two categories. One is heavy cloth, also known as day lacquer type. This type is pasted a number of layers of linen (various types of cloth and silk, gauze, satin etc.) together by using raw lacquer and lacquer ash, then produced into many types of ware mould. Another type is “paper body with cloth core”, that is the inner layer of the body is pasted by linen, and the surface is pasted by papers, of which can save materials.
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Bodiess figure of the Buddha |
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