How carved lacquer ware is made

Lacquer carving is a traditional Chinese fork art with more than a thousand years of history. The skills of lacquer carving were listed as the first patch of Chinese intangible cultural heritage in 2006. Chinese lacquer carving crafts use lacquer tree as raw material, copper and wood as the bodies. When painting the body, layers of the paint were arranged in uniform thickness. When the lacquer was cold and hard, the carving was done with a V-shaped tool kept very sharp. The cutting was done with amazing precision - no correction of faults was possible, for each layer had to be exactly and accurately reached and the final result precisely foreseen from the beginning of the work.