Chongqing Leather Carving Expert: Hold Live In Chinese Style, European And American Fan

There are such a group of people who pursue peace in impetuosity and fashion in traditional handcrafts, whether they are making leather carvings, gourd lamps or handmade books. Today, the commercial circle of friends published a series of reports on fashion handwork. Although these handcrafts are a bit unpopular, they will make you feel the difference and dexterity.

a sheet Leatherwear A knife, a stamp, a box of dyestuffs... Through exquisite handwork, elegant and distinctive works of art can be formed. Today, the leather carving people in Chongqing play the fashion of traditional carving art through the carving knife in their hands. No matter the Chinese wind or the European and American fans, they can be vividly reflected in leather by their hands.

20 revolving cutters

Liu Yunke, 33 years old, lives in Beibei. He likes to work as a handicraft since he was young. He has been in touch with leather carving for nearly two years. Walking into Liu Yunke's study, there are all kinds of leather decorations on his desk, and all kinds of graver are everywhere.

Pick up a grindstone and laugh and tell reporters: "if you want to make leather carving, you will rely on this rotary carving knife. This kind of carving knife is different from the carving knife used in ordinary hand carving. It is a carving knife specially used for leather carving. The material of the knife is iron knife, stainless steel knife, high hardness steel knife and ceramic knife. The shape of the cutter head is wide, narrow, thick, thin, flat, oblique, double edged, and there are dents and radians in the knife body. The wide knife is suitable for the long curved line of the big flower type, and the narrow knife is suitable for the short arc of the small flower type. Generally speaking, there are nearly 20 different knives for a rotary carving knife used in a set of leather carving." Liu Yunke readily

Liu Yunke told reporters: "in general, some simple works, using 2~3 to cut the knife is basically enough, with a rotary carving knife, the lines and lines of the work will be more fluid and natural."

　 Special printing as much as possible Hundred branches

Hand painted or machine patterned, spread on leather, with a rotary carving knife carved out the basic embryonic form, and then will be printed to further work. Liu Yunke told reporters: "in the leather carving works, the concave and convex parts are all printed matter. Choose different prints, lay the marble underneath the leather, and hammer out the different patterns with the printing. The function of printing is to make the patterns change with light and dark, so that the texture is more three-dimensional."

Liu Yunke told reporters: "although this process is very simple, but the rational use of all kinds of printing will directly determine whether the skin carving works are vivid. Generally speaking, there are dozens of commonly used prints, all of which are printed exclusively for leather carving, and all the leather carving prints on the market are up to hundreds. Generally speaking, the entry level printing price is 30~80 yuan."

The color of the brush is coloured with exclusive dyes.

After finishing the carving of the pattern, the last process of leather carving is color. Liu Yunke said: "in general, the process of using brush is almost the same as drawing. If necessary, we will use different brushes of different sizes. The dye is a special leather dye." Liu Yunke added: "the so-called vegetable tanned leather is also called leather carving, and its color is undyed. Vegetable tanned leather has small elasticity, easy to absorb water and soft plastic, and easy to reshaping. The color is from the pale meat pink to light brown, which is the most suitable for leather carving. In general, we will buy tanned leather on the Internet. The quality of vegetable tanned leather imported from Italy is the best, and the general price is about 50 yuan per foot.

Liu Yunke also told reporters that he suggested that he set up a shop on the recommendation of his friends. Generally, he made a custom sale, and has sold nearly 10 at the price of 1000~2000 yuan.

　 Story

Hand sewing leather handset for wife to make a gift

He Zuguo is 32 years old and works in sales in Yuzhong district. Two years ago, on his wife's birthday, he bought a new cell phone as a gift, but his wife also wanted a mobile phone cover. Once, in a circle of friends in WeChat, some friends were drying their hand-made wallets, and the motherland felt that they had a lot of intentions and sprouted the idea of hand-made sewing sets.

"I went to the Internet to watch videos, check information, and finally be attracted by leather carving mobile phone sets." He Zuguo told the newspaper reporter with a smile that he bought leather and needlework, steel ruler, art knife and other tools from the Internet, and spent three days to complete the handwork of leather phone sets. "The finished product is rough, with no carving part. But my wife likes it very much and now she still uses it. "

With her debut work, He Zuguo was alone in the production of the leather carving in the following year. He said, unlike cloth, leather carving can not be removed after a mistake. "Many times, I'm going to make a leather carving satchel, and then make a wallet, a short bag, even a key bag, a card bag..."

She fell in love with leather carving, needles and tears.

"Unlike other crafts, I like the texture of leather carvings. According to their own preferences, carving different patterns. After 80, Ms. Li worked in Jiangbei, and she liked to do handcrafts from an early age. Last summer, she accidentally saw the finished leather carving products on the Internet. When she felt good, she bought tools and materials to do it herself. Now, apart from working, her greatest interest is to discuss with her friends the production of leather carving. As usual, she likes to enter the shop, studying the patterns on the bags, and thinking about how to carve them into leather bags.

"The most painful thing is to get stuck by needles." Ms. Li laughs, because the needle of the suture cortex is bigger than the ordinary sewing needle, and it hurts more. The stitches were made of double needles. Once, she did not notice the needle on the back side, and directly tied it to her hands. "It was the most painful time, when I ran to tears. After I finished crying, I continued to sew. I thought I was a woman. She said that apart from the enjoyment of the work process, friends shared and encouraged each other to enrich her spiritual life.

　　 Present situation

Chongqing leather carving enthusiasts only more than ten people

Yesterday, Liu Yunke said in an interview with a Commercial Daily reporter that there are many QQ groups of handmade lovers in Chongqing, and there are hundreds of people in the group. Although leather carvings are hand made, there are only over ten lovers. He said that unlike other traditional handicrafts, leather carving has been introduced to China for a long time, and there are few contacts.

In addition to the texture of the skin carving, "I also like the sense of calm and settled in sculpture." Like the satisfaction after finishing, and the surprise and admiration of a friend after getting the leather carving, "in He Zuguo's opinion, making a leather carving is not a mistake, it does not necessarily mean that it is handy. It can grind the mind and try to get twice the result with half the effort."

　　 Skin carving

European culture was introduced into the Americas, and leather craft was introduced by Spaniards. With rotary carving tools and printing tools, leather is carved, knocked, pushed and squeezed to produce various expressions, depth, distance and other sensations and effects, or the shape of plane landscape paintings or decorative patterns, so that patterns and patterns can be carved out of concave and convex layers and decorations on the surface of leather. Therefore, the surface work of different levels of leather is carved out of leather, which is collectively called leather carving.