Chapter 320 Glaze Formula

Hearing Li Yi's reminder, many viewers in the live broadcast room complained in the barrage area.

"We have a gold store here that cleans gold jewelry for the elderly for free. My grandma was cheated. After washing it a few times, I found that the lighter it gets, the lighter it gets."

"Is there still such a saying? Then I was cheated when I went to sell gold chains last time! The boss said that he would wash it for me for free and then weigh it. Wouldn't it wash away hundreds of dollars?"

"This kind of situation was very common more than ten years ago. Many small gold shops stole gold in this way, but now it is much less."

"If you want to wash gold jewelry, it's better to wash it yourself. If you are too lazy to do it, you can go to a brand chain store. Be safe."

In front of the camera, Cai Yi looked at the golden bowl tire in Li Yi's hand, and praised him again and again.

"The effect is really good! It's much better than what we burned before."

He moved closer, admiring the pattern of gold wires integrated into the bowl, and murmured: "This ancient man didn't have water, so how can he remove the traces of solder powder?"

Li Yi heard what he said, but pretended he didn't hear it, didn't say anything, just roasted the bowl of tires with a spray gun.

The old boy obviously wanted to make a fool of himself, asking if his craftsmanship came from ancient inheritance.

However, the ancients did have a way to wash off the solder color on the gold tires, that is, to use dried plums or apricots to cook them in water.

Dried plums and apricots contain natural acidic substances, which can wash off the weld marks on the gold tire, but it takes a day or two to cook.

But in ancient times, this was already the secret of the cloisonné craftsman passing it on to the inside but not to the outside, and not to pass it on to the sons but not the daughters.

Li Yi failed to get this secret recipe from Liang Shaowen and Wang Shixiong in the process of stealing it several times.

But by coincidence, he is a cook and a modern man.

Once he smelled the wafting smell of cooking enamelware, and distinguished the smell of plums among the complex smells.

Considering the purpose of cooking enamelware and the effect of the final product, he thought of the principle of pickling and guessed the secret recipe.

Later, after experimenting, he succeeded in the experiment, and washed the enamelware stained black by welding powder back to its original color.

However, although this so-called secret recipe was cracked, it was of little use.

Because he wants to recreate it in modern times. In modern times, he has water in the water, which is much better than plum water.

After drying all the remaining moisture on the carcass, Li Yi checked the gold wire on the carcass.

After some inspection, he was very satisfied.

The firing effect is very good, all the gold wires are completely integrated with the bowl tire, and there is no welding away, welding off, or welding down.

So, he put down the bowl tires and took the backpack he brought from the hotel.

He opened the backpack and took out a pack of kraft paper. He opened the kraft paper, revealing powders of different colors inside.

Seeing the powder that Li Yi took out, Geng Wanhua quickly walked a few steps and came to the table, staring at the powder with a look of shock.

He stared at the powder and asked in surprise, "Are these cloisonné glazes?"

"if not?"

Li Yi asked back with disapproval, and then began to adjust the glaze.

Seeing Li Yi skillfully adjusting the glaze, Geng Wanhua glanced at Cai Yi, and they both smiled wryly and shook their heads.

They finally knew why Li Yi was always full of confidence.

It turned out that they didn't intend to use the authentic Wanshou Wujiang bowl as a cushion to reproduce it.

People have a glaze formula in their hands!

In the production of cloisonné, the two most important steps are "firing" and "dotting blue".

In ancient times, these two steps were performed by specialized craftsmen, who were called silk workers and blue workers respectively.

In ancient times, it was always believed that silk workers were more important than blue workers, because silk workers had to complete a series of tasks such as threading, pulling, breaking, sticking and welding.

And the blue workers only need to adjust the blue materials and fill them into the grids broken by the silk workers. It seems that there is no technical difficulty.

Ancient craftsmen have always believed that the decoration of cloisonne objects all depends on the level of silk workers' breaking work.

When breaking the pattern, many techniques are used, such as dead-cure, bending, bending, outward folding, etc. The patterns of the broken silk must be consistent.

Therefore, the silk worker's hand, brain and wire breaking tweezers must cooperate very closely to break out the ideal decoration.

But when the expert group reproduced the cloisonné objects, they were stumped by the glaze.

The expert team consumed a lot of cloisonné utensils, peeled off their glaze layer, and analyzed the content of various elements.

But when re-engraving, they tried to use similar raw materials to fire, but they still couldn't achieve the effect of the original product.

After many attempts, they finally gave up.

Without the formula of the glaze, they seem to be relying on their own strength to decipher the experience and wisdom accumulated by the predecessors for hundreds of years.

If you use the exhaustive method, maybe there is a slight possibility to restore the formula of the glaze.

But that requires a lot of money and time.

Money is a small matter, the main thing is that no one is doing it.

You have to endure the boring firing year after year, you can't see hope, you can't see the direction of success, and the salary is not necessarily high.

There are not many students of related majors in China, and even fewer are willing to do this job.

Moreover, they are not sure that the analysis of the bottom glaze is not in place. If they analyze a few more finished products, will there be any key discoveries.

In order not to destroy the remaining utensils, they could only take the idea of ​​re-engraving into the bottom of their hearts.

It was this experience that gave them a psychological shadow on the matter of re-engraving cloisonne utensils.

So when they learned that Li Yi was going to reproduce the Wanshou Wujiang Bowl, they firmly opposed it.

Because they thought that Li Yi would repeat their mistakes, and would use the method of stripping off the glaze and comparing and analyzing it to re-engrave the ratio of the glaze.

But they didn't expect that Li Yi had no intention of making a move on the Wanshou Wujiang Bowl, and he had a ready-made glaze recipe in his hand!

Geng Wanhua and Cai Yi looked at the rainbow-like powders in Li Yi's hand.

Is this the cloisonné glaze that they tried dozens of times but failed?

What are these materials?

Is it raw ore or post-combustion?

They held back their stomachs with questions and wanted to ask Li Yi, but in the end they didn't ask.

They knew that even if they asked, Li Yi wouldn't say anything.

This is the core secret in the cloisonné production process!

In the blind spot of the camera, Guan Yue looked like ants on a hot pot, scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously, while Geng Wanhua and Cai Yi paced back and forth with obvious smiles on their lips.

The more anxious Geng Wanhua and Cai Yi were, the happier he was.

Because this shows that Li Yi's re-engraving of cloisonné is more likely to be successful.

Li Yi took out several deep-mouthed dishes, and used clear water to adjust more than a dozen kinds of glazes on the table into glazes.

Then, he matched these glazes with each other to create transitional colors of various colors.

Seeing Li Yi's earnest grading action, Zhao Jinmai couldn't help muttering to Liu Yifei in a low voice: "Brother Yi looks like a painter now!"

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