Filigree inlay is a traditional handicraft technique with a long history
2022-09-16

The process of gold and silver wire inlaying includes conception, draft selection, cutting flowers, scribing, cutting grass, meeting and leveling, silk paper trimming, grinding, finishing, and painting.

The first is the draft selection, which refers to careful deliberation and pondering before inlaying. There are three categories of manuscripts: text, patterns and pictures. The selected number of the drawing or pattern must be trimmed to make the color and filigree inlaid with Japanese elements.

The second is the line decals. According to the layout of the work, the line setting should be reasonable and just right. In order to spend money on stickers, cut off the excess parts of the well-conceived sketches, and then determine the position of the stickers on the objects according to the design requirements, so that the patterns and objects can be coordinated with each other. The third is to meet grass and cut grass. These three processes are closely related to each other, play a decisive role in the whole process, and are directly related to the quality and grade of the mosaic. Different carving knives should be selected according to the different patterns and lines, especially for more complex patterns, the knife edge must be kept sharp, and according to the thickness of the pattern, line cloth and other details, some need to be chiseled with grass cutting tools. Such as flat algae, round algae and so on. Some knives are special shaped knives, which are made by the artists themselves and are handy. The depth or shallowness, width or narrowness, length or shortness of the Kecao chisel should be built according to the pattern. Five contours and one hook should be built. Use tweezers to flatten the hair-thin gold and silver wires and embed them in various grooves.