manupropria
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Some months ago I have started making a new urushi with sprinkling malachite pieces into wet lacquer.
This Kujaku-Ishi-Nuri I have eventually seen on a Japanese Sword scabbard called "saya".
Kujaku-Ishi = Peacock-Lacquer (Malachite).
First I had to crush some malachite pebbles I found in a drawer and sieved it to different sizes.
It was then sprinkled into wet urushi lacquer.
After many layers of black lacquer have been applied over the malachite partcles I had to wait many months until the lacquer has reached a certain hardness close to the hardness of the malachite itself to grind the surface even and to polish. It is a very time consuming lacquer version
Best regards,
Martin
Some months ago I have started making a new urushi with sprinkling malachite pieces into wet lacquer.
This Kujaku-Ishi-Nuri I have eventually seen on a Japanese Sword scabbard called "saya".
Kujaku-Ishi = Peacock-Lacquer (Malachite).
First I had to crush some malachite pebbles I found in a drawer and sieved it to different sizes.
It was then sprinkled into wet urushi lacquer.
After many layers of black lacquer have been applied over the malachite partcles I had to wait many months until the lacquer has reached a certain hardness close to the hardness of the malachite itself to grind the surface even and to polish. It is a very time consuming lacquer version
Best regards,
Martin