What is the process of embedding shells and copper wires in wood?

Filament is a metal handicraft which is woven, piled, filled and inlaid with metal wires such as gold, silver and copper. It is a traditional metal handicraft.

Mother-of-pearl is generally used in precious hardwood furniture, such as mahogany, Huang Huali and mahogany. Among them, mahogany is the majority. However, mother-of-pearl in Soviet-style furniture is rarely used alone, and it is often mixed with other inlays, such as jade, ivory, colored stone, coral and so on. This is what people usually call "treasure mosaic".

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Mother-of-pearl inlay techniques are very rich, which can usually be divided into three categories: hard cymbals, soft cymbals and carved cymbals. Hard cymbals can be divided into rough hard cymbals, thin hard cymbals, inlaid colors and inlaid hard cymbals. The soft cymbal is a small snail. Lettering refers to inlaying higher than the earth.

"Hard mother-of-pearl" is a thick shell piece. If mother-of-pearl is made as thin as paper, it is "soft mother-of-pearl". If the soft bottom of mother-of-pearl is lined with various colors, it can produce the effect of color penetration, which is "color fixing" One of the most famous is the "point snail" in soft cymbals, also known as "point snail paint". It was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, flourished in the Tang and Song Dynasties, flourished in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and was perfected in the early Qing Dynasty.

The so-called "point snail" means that the snail shell is made into thin slices less than 0.5 mm, cut into various shapes such as points, lines and slices, and embedded in black paint base bit by bit, which can produce fantastic and gorgeous artistic effects under the light. This is a gorgeous lacquer decorated with mother-of-pearl.

In China's antique furniture, mother-of-pearl materials mainly come from freshwater lakes and saltwater lakes, and commonly used varieties include snail shells, seashells, luminous snails, triangular mussels, abalone, mussel shells and so on. The older the mussels, the better the effect.

Because of its precise structure, strong flexibility and rich and changeable colors, especially the luminous snail, it can emit colorful luster at night, which is very pleasing to the eye.

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