Base materials of lacquerware

Various materials into a base of lacquer coating.

Lacquer is a liquid until set, you can not use that there is no something material.
As the material of lacquerware, generally it has been used wood.
Furthermore, bamboo, paper, cloth, leather, ceramics, metal, vine of the plant has been also used as material from the old days. Synthetic resin is also used as a material in recent years.

1.Wood

Kurimono
Vessels and trays made of lump of wood carved with chisel and mallet, and rubbed lacquer.
It can not be mass-produced, but can be a free-form.

Sashimono
Wood products to make a combination of the plate, such as boxes and furniture.
It does not use basically the nail.

Warigi
Plate made by tearing the thin plate while watching the grain like firewood cutting.
It is hard to make a smooth surface, is not suitable for materials such as box.

Hikimono
Vessels, bowls, trays, dishes made by cutting wood with woodworking potter's wheel and lathe.

Magemono
Round container making it bending and boiled the sheet of cedar and cypress in hot water, and bear in such bark. "Mage-Wappa" of Akita and "Menpa" of Kiso are famous.

2.Cloth ("Kanshitsu")

Dry lacquer technique had often used in production of Buddha statue in the Nara period.
Techniques to solidify coating the lacquer as wood and linen in the prototype, is called "Mokushin-Kanshitsu" (wood core dry lacquer).
Dry lacquer is characterized by can make a free form.
If you make a prototype using the pottery of clay, you can relatively easily interesting work.

3.Leather ("Shippi")

Animal skins, such as cattle and boar, have been used as a base of lacquer painting for a long time.
"Shippi" is a way that the dipping skin in water, sticking in the mold, it was molded, and solidify by painting lacquer.
This method is easy to make the shape that Yawarakami, but it is difficult point that the distortion is easy to get in shape.

4.Banboo ("Rantai")

A technique painting lacquer on what piled paste Japanese paper on the basket, made of bamboo and Akebi vine, it says "Rantai".

5.Ceramics and porcelain ("Totai")

It is seen a number of examples of lacquer is painted in the Jomon period of unglazed pottery.
Currently, it is not apparent in everyday products, it is used in the case to prevent water leakage of pottery.

6.Paper ("Shitai")

Techniques that the Japanese paper by bonding overlaid with glue lacquer, is in the form of a vessel.

7.Metal ("Kintai")

Helmets of Sengoku period, it had been painted by baking a lacquer.
Baked painted lacquer is strong in high fever, and it has rust resistant advantages.

8.Synthetic resin

Animal skins, such as cattle and boar, have been used as a base of lacquer painting for a long time.
"Shippi" is a way that the dipping skin in water, sticking in the mold, it was molded, and solidify by painting lacquer.
This method is easy to make the shape that Yawarakami, but it is difficult point that the distortion is easy to get in shape.Synthetic resin is a revolutionary way to be able to make the most of the shape described above.
Lacquer is recoating of thin coating film, but resin because can make a thick mass.
But resin degradation is fast, it is difficult point that is easily cracked.