A mouthful of fried rice at a sky-high price, Old Tang apprenticed on the spot

Chapter 317

After chatting, Li Yi has already made the first bowl tire with a punching machine.

The effect of the stamping machine is very good. The treated gold piece is placed on the mold, and under extrusion, the gold piece becomes a bowl-shaped carcass.

Looking at the golden rice bowl, Wu Lei couldn't help but marvel: "This is a real golden rice bowl!"

This bowl tire alone weighs at least half a catty.

Half a catty of gold is 10,000+!

Even in a wealthy family, it is a luxury to eat with such an expensive bowl.

But this is only the first step in making cloisonné goldware, and it is also the easiest step.

Starting from filigree is the difficulty of making cloisonné.

Taking the 1mm thick gold piece to the table, Li Yi used a ruler and a pen to draw a rectangle as big as possible on top of the gold piece.

Then, he picked up the scissors, cut off the irregular part outside the gold piece, and trimmed the gold piece into a regular rectangle.

Then, he used scissors to cut the rectangular gold sheet into 1mm thick gold wires.

Seeing Li Yi trimming the gold wire, Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua behind were a little moved.

They were surprised, because Li Yi pruned very fast, as if he didn't use his eyes at all, and only acted on his instinct.

But the gold wires that Li Yi trimmed were very even and of the same thickness.

This made them a little unbelievable.

When the expert group was re-engraving, they also wasted the boss's effort in the step of shredding, and they reheated it countless times, and the yield rate was less than 20%.

But every gold wire that Li Yi cut out was a finished product that could be processed, and the finished product rate reached 100%!

However, this is not the end.

Li Yi took out a set of puller boards, clamped the gold wires with wire pliers, stuffed the gold wires into the holes of the wire boards, and pulled up the gold wires by hand.

There are holes of different sizes on the drawing board, and gold wires can be inserted into these holes, and the gold wires can be pulled into finer and thinner gold wires with wire pulling pliers.

Behind, Wu Lei and the others stood together, watching Li Yi's operation curiously, and muttering to himself.

"So that's what Jin Si wanted to do?"

"It's the first time I've seen how gold wire is made."

"The gold wire is so thin! What if it breaks?"

"The gold flowers on those bracelets are made of this gold wire, aren't they?"

The audience in the live broadcast room was also very curious. Many people saw how the gold thread was made for the first time.

But when Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua saw this scene, they were shocked!

Li Yi is pulling gold wire by hand?

And it still hasn't stopped?
Pulling out such a thin gold wire by hand?How did he do that?
When the expert group was replicating before, in order to make gold wires that fit the size, they specially imported a batch of professional wire pressing machines and wire drawing machines.

With the assistance of the machine, they pulled out the thin gold wire that could be used.

But Li Yi actually used a puller and a puller to pull out the slender gold wire by hand!

Is he a fairy?
How can this be?

But Li Yi was pulling the gold thread unhurriedly in front of them, without any cover, they could see clearly.

Those slender gold threads were really pulled out by Li Yi by hand!

This made Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua feel that the three views were about to collapse.

Can human beings do this?
Li Yi didn't know their shock.

But even if he knew, Li Yi would just laugh it off.

It's really nothing to pull a 1mm gold wire, as long as you have your hands.

Those gold and silver craftsmen in the palace, the masters of filigree inlay, can manually draw the gold thread to less than 0.07mm!

Even the thinnest can be pulled to a diameter of 0.02mm!
You know, the diameter of human hair is also 0.08mm, and the gold wires used by gold and silver craftsmen are all thinner than hair.

Compared with them, Li Yixue's work of drawing gold thread by hand is extremely rough, not even considered an entry-level one.

However, it is enough for filigreeing cloisonné.

After drawing the gold wires, Li Yi brought them back to the tablet press, pressed them into flat sheets, and then hammered the gold wires straight.

This step is to facilitate the subsequent filigree breaking, and also to gather more glaze when bluishing.

He then cut gold sheets of other thicknesses into wires and pressed them into flat sheets.

Next, he held the gold wire with tweezers and broke the gold wire into different patterns.

The most difficult part of filigree is breaking work.

Filigree requires regular workmanship, and the pinched shape must be well-proportioned, so that the effect of blue dots in the later stage will be clean and tidy.

Generally, when apprentices learn how to cut silk, they have to practice breaking work for at least a few months.

It took Li Yi half a year to get into the dream space.

The camera moved close to Li Yi, taking a close-up shot.

Standing in the distance, Li Yi's movements could no longer be seen clearly, so everyone looked at the monitor carried by the staff, which showed the details of Li Yi's filigree pattern.

Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua took it very seriously. They were comparing Li Yi's skills with the difference from when the expert group reproduced them.

After comparison, they were surprised to find that Li Yi's skill level was much more professional than that of the expert group!

The filigree technique used by Li Yi is completely different from the one reproduced by the expert group.

He used a double-hook and double-line filigree method to produce a very plump and gorgeous lotus pattern with a full pattern.

Seeing Li Yi's exquisite technique, Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua exchanged glances, and they both saw the shock in each other's eyes.

This filigree method saves more than half of the time compared with the single-thread filigree method used by the expert group, and the finished product is much better than the expert group.

They all had some doubts. Could this be the real technique of filigreeing cloisonné objects in history?

Soon, Li Yi broke off all the filigree patterns on a bowl.

In addition to the tangled lotus, there are also the variant Kuilonghui pattern on the mouth of the bowl, the lotus petal pattern on the bottom of the bowl, the four characters of Wanshou Wujiang on the wall of the bowl, and the inscription of descendants Yongbao on the bottom.

Among them, the four-character seal script inscription "Zi Sun Yong Bao" at the bottom is the core of this set of bowls.

Its first three characters are taken from the seal script inscribed by Qianlong himself, and the last treasure character was carefully designed into a special font by the cloisonné craftsman.

The word "treasure" contains the meaning of "king" and "80 longevity", which happened to be the happy event of Qianlong's [-]th birthday at that time.

Especially the arc of the last stroke is very special. It is different from the conventional seal script.

Therefore, if you don't know the meaning of this layer, if you copy this set of bowls without a reference object, you will be able to see the authenticity at a glance.

After breaking all the patterns, the next step is to weld them to the gold tire.

This step is also the difficulty.

It is not an easy task to make the pattern firmly adhere to the carcass so that it will not fall off or leave traces during the calcination process.

When the expert group tried countless adhesive materials, chemical glue, biological glue, and even iron wire binding, the effect was not satisfactory.

In the final calcined carcass, the bond between the pattern and the carcass is always not firm, there will be gaps, and it is easy to fall off.

Therefore, when Li Yi took this step, Cai Yi and Geng Wanhua took it very seriously.

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