Lacquer plate
Lacquer plate
round
Lacquer fruit
plate
Lacquer plate
with Gold
Lacquer Plate
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design that
double as pillows, traditional betel boxes, plates, storage
chests, tables and chairs.
Considering
the time and work involved — it takes five to seven
months to make even the smallest item — Lacquerware is
surprisingly inexpensive.
Lacquerware makes a wonderful
present of a visit to
Myanmar. The centre of
Lacquerware manufacture is Bagan in upper Myanmar.
It
is a cottage industry and in the village of Myinkaba alone, some 600 households
produce Lacquerware.
Visitors are welcome to watch the
lacquer ware creation process, a skill passed down from generation to generation.
Golden
Cuckoo Lacquer ware in Myinkaba and Ma Moe Moe Family Lacquerware in
Ywar Thit Quarter, New Bagan, have English-speaking proprietors who
are willing to demonstrate the processes step by step.
The process
to make a lacquer bowl or lacquer plate begins with the
making of a bamboo frame for the lacquer ware item, a bowl
for example.
For objects
like lacquer plates or lacquer bowls of the highest
quality, fine horsehair, taken from the tail, is woven
around the frame. You can tell if horsehair is used by
pressing the sides of the bowl together — they should touch.
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Lacquer table
Lacquer table
and square plate
Lacquer vase
Lacquer Bowl
Black brown |
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Lower quality lacquer
bowls are made completely of bamboo wicker woven around the
frame and are very stiff as a result. Bamboo wicker or
horsehair are traditional materials employed for lacquer-
ware products. |
Rectangle
Black Blue Lacquer Box
Rectangle
Lacquer Box Black Green
Rectangle
Lacquer Box Black Green
/Laquer Box
Square Black Polished
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Nowadays,
cheaper and more durable wood — mainly teak or mango plywood
— is sometimes used to make bases for objects that are not
round in shape, trays, boxes, treasure chests, screens,
tables and chairs
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Lacquer ware
base made from Bamboo Wicker |
After the frame is made and bamboo
wicker or horsehair has been woven around it, the first coating of
lacquer is applied. |
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The lacquer paint used is black and it comes
from a resin of a particular tree found around Inle Lake in eastern
Myanmar. The lacquer paint is applied by hand which makes an even
coating. |
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The object is
then left to dry for a week in an underground cellar; drying
in the sun in the early stages causes pockmarks.
The lacquer object
is then taken out for a second coating of lacquer. It is
left to dry for yet another week in the cellar. The next
stage involves covering the object with a paste made from a
mixture of pulverized buffalo bone, teak sawdust and lacquer
to fill up any nooks or crevices. It is left to dry for a
week. The object is then polished with
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Lacquer Box
round gold with flower
Lacquer Box
round gold with birds |
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Rectangle
Lacquer Box Black Red
Rectangle
Lacquer Box Black Red 1
Rectangle
Lacquer Box Black Red
Lacquer ware red and black bowls
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pumice stone to
remove rough surfaces. Lacquer paint is again applied and
the object put aside to dry.
After another week, the lacquer object is polished again,
both on the inside and outside, using a mixture of clay and
stone. The polishing is done three times before the object
is stored underground for one month. Then a long process of
painting and drying begins
First, the inside of the object is painted with lacquer and
left to dry for a week; then the outside is painted and the
object is again put aside for drying. At that stage the
object is polished again with water and stone, dried in the
sun for two hours, another coat of lacquer is applied and
the object is dried underground for a week. |
Lacquerware Shop |
Before the lacquer ware will be displayed in the shop over the
next seven weeks, a layer of lacquer is applied at
one-week intervals. The result is a shining lacquer ware product made even
glossier by careful polishing with a buffalo chamois soaked in
sesame oil. At this stage, the desired color or colors and designs
are worked onto the object. Usually traditional designs are etched
onto the surface by very fine instruments.
Then one color is
applied, the lacquer ware is left to dry for a week, it is polished
with rice husks, washed with water and painted with acacia glue to
fix the color. |
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If another color is required on the lacquer object, more
details are etched and coated with the second color,
left to dry for a week, washed and then fixed with
acacia glue again. |
Lacquer round box with gold |
More Lacquer etchings are made and a
third color is added and this time, the
object is left to dry for a month. Later, it
is polished first with teakwood ash and
water and then with a piece of cotton cloth.
The lacquer item is washed and dried
again for ten minutes in the sun and finally
polished with a powder made from pulverized
petrified wood.
Sometimes gold leafs are put onto the |
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lacquer for decoration. That’s not
all. The object is painted once more on the
inside with red lacquer, left to dry for one
craftsmanship. week and is finally ready for
sale. It takes five months to produce
lacquer ware cups, seven months to make
lacquer ware betel boxes and at least a year
to produce lacquer ware tables and
chairs. But the final result is without a
doubt, a thing of beauty and a fine
testimony to Myanmar. |
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Selling Lacquerware in Bagan |
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Thai
Lacquerware or Thailand Lacquer Art
Thai Lacquer
Vases in different colors |
Thailand has a very
creative artwork community in Chiang Mai and elsewhere centered
around lacquer items, like lacquer vases, lacquer bowls, lacquer
furniture, lacquer table and all kinds of decorative items to bring
more beauty into the house.
They also have lacquer boxes, lacquer coffee table, black lacquer
furniture and other Asian lacquer ware. |
Great Thai
Lacquer Elephants |
Lacquer
elephants are some of the most creative and skillfully made
lacquer items in some Chiang Mai lacquer
workshops.
Lacquer
elephants come in different sizes since the price is
very much depending on the size. If you are shopping for a
lacquer elephant you better take enough Thai Baht with you,
all this lacquer items and lacquer furniture are not cheap.
Black
lacquer chairs and black lacquer desk are available. |
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