MTL - A Mouthful of Sky-high Fried Rice, Lao Tang Apprenticed on the Spot-Chapter 320 Glaze Recipe

  Chapter 320 Glaze recipe

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

   "We have a gold store here to help the elderly clean gold jewelry for free. My grandma was cheated. After washing it a few times, I found that the more washed it is, the lighter it becomes."

   "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 cost 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 best to wash it yourself. If you are too lazy to do it, go to a brand chain store. Be safer."

  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 gold wire pattern integrated with the bowl tire, and muttered in his mouth: "The ancients didn't have water, how can they remove the traces of solder powder?"

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

   This 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 golden body, that is, to use dried plums or dried apricots to steam them.

  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 not to pass it on to the outside, to pass it on to his sons but not to his 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.

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

   But although this so-called secret recipe has been cracked, it is of no great use.

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

   After drying 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.

  Opening the backpack, he 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 a question in disapproval, and then began to mix 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 turns out that they didn't intend to use the genuine Wanshou Wujiang bowl as a cushion for re-engraving.

  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, breaking, breaking, sticking and welding.

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

  Ancient craftsmen always believed that the decoration of cloisonné objects all depended on the level of the silk workers.

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

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

  But when the expert group reproduced the cloisonne utensils, they were stumped by the glaze.

  The expert group consumed a lot of cloisonne utensils, stripped 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 trivial matter, mainly because no one will do it.

   I have to endure the boring firing year after year, with no hope and direction of success, and the salary is not necessarily high.

  There are not many domestic students of related majors, 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 findings.

  In order not to destroy the only remaining utensils, they can only take the idea of ​​​​replicating 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 wanted to reproduce the Wanshou Wujiang Bowl, they firmly opposed it.

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

   But they didn't expect that Li Yi didn't plan to start with the Wanshou Wujiang Bowl at all, and he had a ready-made glaze recipe in his hand!

  Looking at the rainbow-like powders in Li Yi's hand, Geng Wanhua and Cai Yi's eyes were extremely hot.

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

   What are these materials?

  Is it the raw ore or afterburning?

  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 tell.

   This is the core secret in the production process of cloisonne!

   At the blind spot of the camera, Guan Yue looked like an ant on a hot pot, scratching his head and scratching his head 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 is more likely to succeed in re-engraving the cloisonné technique.

  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.

  Following that, he matched the glaze colors with each other to create transitional colors of various colors.

  Looking at Li Yi's serious color-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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