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Chapter 289
Among all handicrafts, there are two handicrafts which are rarely counterfeited.The first is ink. The value of ink lies in the ink itself, and the value of the age is not important, so there are very few forgers.There is also a blanket, and the counterfeit blanket is very simple.First, use domestic pigments instead of foreign ones, and then weave blankets in the style of old blankets, then apply soil sauce on the surface, and pull them back and forth with ropes to loosen the wool.Then spread the blanket on the ground and brush it with a wire brush, and brush all the hairs that have been worn down.Then spread it in a sunny place, dip it in water and brush it, let it dry and then brush it again.The color fades and shines after a few days.But it's just that the surface is old, and the inside is inconsistent. After untying the thread, it's still showing its original shape.In the end, the number of imitators gradually decreased.not worth it.

But it cannot be said that blankets have no craft value.On the contrary, the auction market often fetches several 10 yuan for a blanket, and these blankets are not more than ten square meters in size, and the small ones are only three or four square meters, which is also a sky-high price.

The value of a blanket is composed of four things. The first is the blanket itself, including the weaving process and materials. Most of them are wool. The best in China is Ningxia beach wool. It is wrong to say that it is made of rhinoceros hair. Rhinoceros hair is short and lint-free, so it cannot be picked through, let alone a weaving blanket.Then there is the color, pattern, and finally the age. The old ones and the few unearthed ones used by the court are very precious.

However, there are exceptions. Some people use silk carpets. For example, a six-square-meter palace silk carpet in the Qing Dynasty once sold for a sky-high price of more than 200 million yuan.

Just as the minister thought, Wang Hua has no hands-on ability, and has never made silk fabrics or blankets by himself in two lifetimes.But he has the ability to move his mouth.As an important handicraft in China, Wang Hua had many collections in his previous life, including silk embroidery and blankets.

If you want to collect, you must have relevant knowledge.Otherwise, people say that this is a blanket that Li Shimin personally used, do you believe it?So how to identify the authenticity, you have to learn.Looking at patterns, production techniques, and wool colors, this learning process inevitably enabled Wang Hua to master many blanket-making techniques.

Now as long as these crafts are taught to these court ladies and craftsmen and craftsmen invited from the two states, it is useless to silently invite masters of carpet making from all over the world.Of course, the time is delayed by another 1000 years. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the blanket manufacturing industry was mature, Wang Hua was not sure of victory.

More than twenty court ladies, not very old, in their teens and twenties, all giggled when they saw Wang Hua coming.In particular, Wang Hua is still wearing blood armor because he shouted from the barracks. He may not be as tall as Zhuge Liang (the textual research is 1.8 meters four), but compared with ordinary people, he is tall and burly. With a heroic spirit, unlike some special elders in the blood camp, that is a fleshy body.So it's a little more eye-catching.

But for this burly young man to make a truss, it is inevitable that these court ladies cover their mouths one by one for fun.

So for a while, Wang Hua lived in joy and pain.

Very fragrant, more than 20 court ladies were selected into the palace in those days, and there must not be a Dong Shi in it.Every young girl, Guan Jian, these girls also had the same thought.They stay in the deep palace, and it seems that they will never be able to make it in their lifetime, but if they can make the young man in front of them tempted, with the current emperor's favor for him, they will take it out with a single mouth.

So she wore thinner clothes day by day, wearing revealing clothes, and wearing them thoroughly. Her body was covered with incense powder, which smelled delicious all day long, and she also took the opportunity of asking for advice to rub some parts of her body on Wang Hua's body, acting coquettishly.This is Wang Hua, if it were someone else, there might be a carnival in the end, and I don't know what kind of chaos it will be.

But Wang Hua also has blood and flesh, so what should I do?
Looking for Li Bao'er to vent his anger, being teased by these maids every day makes his blood boil, or Zeng's blood boils, anyway, the effect is better than taking two Viagra.Quietly buy a quiet house outside, and often make appointments with Li Bao'er every now and then.

As a result, before Wang Hua came to Jingdezhen, the maids were still those court ladies, their skills improved, and their expressions became more resentful. Wang Hua was still the same Wang Hua, but Li Baoer was reborn after intensive baptism, and her face was radiant, just like a peach. , radiant and seductive.

But the first day was very honest, and Lao Wu was still watching.

Wang Hua began to give them theoretical lessons.Such as velvet and velvet.Another example is the hand-loaded pile, which is further divided into drawn and twisted carpets. The drawn and twisted carpets are dense and thick, woven with five strands of wool, and the back does not show white wefts.Twisted rugs are woven with four strands of wool. The texture is not as dense and dense as that of twisted rugs, and there are white wefts on the back.The weaving methods of the two are basically the same, but there is an opposite difference in the weft passing process: the twisted carpet is pulled down by the twisting rod to pass through the thick weft, and the fine weft is twisted; the twisted carpet is twisted when the thick weft is passed. Pull down, the fine weft is twisted.

Some of these techniques have appeared now, and some have not yet appeared. They did not appear until the Ming and Qing blankets were completed.Another example is some small skills, horoscope buckle, herringbone pattern and so on.

While Wang Hua was talking, he also clumsily did it himself, setting a model for them.

The action was so weird that the old general who was drinking tea at the side burst out laughing.

But Wang Hua was not satisfied with this, he borrowed a technique from silk embroidery.Silk embroidery can be divided into four categories, brocade silk, that is, brocade made on Luosha silk, which is the most common thread embroidery variety in early ancient China.For example, the Luantong Brocade, Yunkun Brocade, and Lieming Brocade of the Zhou Dynasty, the Five-color Brocade, Lianyan Brocade, and Zhuanwen Brocade of the Han Dynasty, and the Wuhou Brocade, Ruyi Tiger Head Lianbi Brocade, and Yunlong Qiufeng Brocade of the Three Kingdoms (Shu, Wei and Wu), etc., Lifeng Zhu brocade in the Sui Dynasty, fish oil brocade, ice silkworm brocade, Mingxia brocade, Fuguang brocade in the Tang Dynasty, etc.In the Song Dynasty, there were more, such as octagonal brocade, lantern brocade, dragon play, light face hole yarn and so on.But after the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, there were only imitations and no innovations.

The second is weaving, weaving is very similar to the other two crafts of silk embroidery, silk carving and embroidery, but weaving is to weave all the characters and patterns at the same time. What is not removed is embroidery, and what is removed is engraved silk.The age of weaving is also very early. Zhao Feiyan, a great beauty in the Han Dynasty, liked to wear weaving jackets and skirts. In the Tang Dynasty, the technique became more mature. Some people used weaving techniques to embroider "Orchid Pavilion Preface", just like Wang Xizhi himself embroidered on silk. as written.It also reached its peak in the Song Dynasty, but gradually declined after the Ming Dynasty, and it was even rarer in the Qing Dynasty.

The third is embroidery, which is the main silk embroidery variety that has continued until now.But before the Tang Dynasty, it was mostly used to make clothes and accessories. In the Song Dynasty, some people liked to use embroidery to make calligraphy and paintings.But after a period of decline in the Yuan Dynasty, it began to shine again in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Because foreigners like it, it reached its peak in the late Qing Dynasty.

Wang Hua didn't choose any of the first three items. He chose the fourth item, Kesi, or Kesi.

An inch of tapestry is an inch of gold!

This kind of Kesi uses this sentence, which is still belittled!
One is an imperial tapestry three-star Tusong scroll from the Qing Dynasty, and the auction price is nearly 2000 million!It is only less than three square meters, that is, nearly 1 yuan per square inch. How much can an inch of silk tapestry weigh?A few grams or a few milligrams, not to mention gold, even platinum is not as valuable as it!

However, this is just the beginning. In 2004, the Kesi "Complete Volume of Kesi with Supplementary Engraving at the Duanshi Lanting Tutie" achieved a high price of more than 500 million yuan in the spring auction.And in 2006, a "Large screen painted with mahogany inlaid with silk and silk for the Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty" was sold at a sky-high price of more than 8000 million yuan. The "Qianlong Kesi Sanskrit Dharani Yellow Sutra Quilt" auctioned in 2008 was sold for more than 7000 million.Not to mention the older and better antiques in the major museums.

Therefore, it can be said that carved silk has reached a peak in silk embroidery handicrafts, and there is almost no room for surpassing.

But people in later generations knew that Wang Hua used cut silk as the appearance of a blanket, so they didn't know what to think.

The line is feasible, and the engraved silk is originally divided into many types because of the different production techniques.The thick texture, elegant and noble works, suitable for decoration; the graceful and luxurious, soft and light Ming Kesi; the soft, breathable and light-transmitting Kesi, with intermittent patterns; the soft, Yinfoil Kesi mixed with special low foil Silk.There are also the thin cicada wings in the modern crafts of Wang Hua's previous life, and the purple peak Kesi with looming patterns; the window edge effect, the highly ornamental carved Kesi, and the last craft, which combines the silk carpet craft with the Kesi craft Velvet Kesi together.

But why it is precious is because it is difficult to make. Generally, there are falling warp threads, pulling warp threads, reeds, bending knots, inlaid back shaft warp, dragging warp surface, embedding front shaft warp, carrying warp surface, overturning, overturning head, There are sixteen procedures of chopsticks, stepping sticks, palpable sutra surface, drawing samples, color matching thread, shaking thread, and hair trimming. , Push curtain shuttle, reed leaf piece, Du door bolt, cut shuttle, wooden comb lock, bag heart lock, phoenix tail lock, etc.

The craftsmanship can be said to be extremely cumbersome.

So when its technique is perfect, it is used in expensive calligraphy and paintings, royal clothes or portraits of important figures.Like Wang Hua did this, to use a metaphor, just like Wang Hua used the yellow ground enamel porcelain bowl he bought for more than 500 million to serve food, or used the Ming Hongwu underglaze red twine flower pattern military holder worth more than 200 million It's like drinking tea.

It's too extravagant.

However, it is a matter of the national system, which cannot be disputed at all.

Extravagance is extravagance, but it is also very reasonable.It is not impossible to apply the engraved silk on the blanket and combine it with the blanket as a whole. Wang Hua himself matched the pattern and color, and the craftsmen and maids connected the silk weaving. It is still a whole handicraft blanket.It's just that the ornamental value of cut silk has declined, while the craft value of blankets has increased.

There is another advantage. With the discovery of archaeology, people thought that this craft appeared in the Song Dynasty at first, and then pushed it to the Five Dynasties, and then continued to advance until the Han and Wei Dynasties.In fact, this kind of craftsmanship existed in the Tang Dynasty, but it was immature and rare. Most of them were used as belts for officials or covers for famous books.

Like these selected maids, there are a few who know some simple silk carving techniques.Wang Hua is easy to train.

But Wang Hua has a heavy task, because of time.First of all, the court ladies need to be trained. If simple craftsmanship is not enough, the silk carving process is complicated. Only a top-quality work the size of a square scarf contains thousands of gradual colors, and it takes several months for senior technicians to complete.The problem of technicians is not a big problem. Many technicians from all over the country will soon enter the palace. How can these technicians be unified? Don’t be like the long-axis painting of the seven surnames.This is another difficulty.And the handicraft of the court ladies also needs to be improved.

In addition, when weaving, the warp thread is first installed on the loom, and the drawing or book manuscript is lined under the warp thread. The ten-centimeter, small boat-shaped shuttle with various silk threads is woven in blocks according to the patterns.It is impossible for Wang Hua to rely on the weavers for this brush painting work, and he has to do it by himself.

This is many times more difficult than painting on paper.Moreover, Wang Hua himself had never done such a job, so he had to explore.

It's not over yet, we can't make blankets at the beginning, after Wang Hua draws the pattern, he has to draw the original picture, let these craftsmen try to figure it out, and learn these new techniques at the same time.It also includes the gold and silver thread commonly used in Dashi now, the peacock hair used later, and the foil paper made of dried grass and dried flowers in his previous life, which was then cut into thin strips and woven into the fabric to make the picture closer to nature. Skill.

It can be said that Wang Hua made these three blankets, and it is possible to gather all the achievements of the blanket and cut silk later.

Not only the maids, but even Shangguan Xiaowan and a group of princesses and princesses who came here were dumbfounded, never heard of it, never even thought about it.Some masters who are good at silk embroidery even took notes and figured it out by themselves after returning home.

But what satisfies Wang Hua is that he doesn't have to worry about manpower and materials, as long as he speaks.If he had to do all the work by himself, well, it would not take three months, and it might not be completed in three years.

While explaining, Wang Hua made gestures and sketches with a pen from time to time, drawing pictures to give them an intuitive impression.

Then there is the machine, the textile machine for making blankets, which also needs to be improved. For this point, you can refer to some looms in Li Xianhuang's estate.After continuous improvement by craftsmen, although it is not as good as Huang Daopo's, the difference is not too far.It can be used for reference.There is another kind of machine, Kesi machine, which is a wooden machine, dozens of small bamboo shuttles with various colored weft threads and a bamboo dial.When weaving, the artist sits in front of the wooden machine, sketches the pattern on the warp surface according to the pre-design, keeps changing the shuttle back and forth to weave the weft, and then uses the dial to arrange the weft thread tightly.The principle is simple, and the manufacture is not difficult, but due to backwardness, tens of thousands of shuttles are often needed to weave a piece of work.

Wang Hua has nothing to do with this.We don't have an excavator, so we have to learn from Yugong to move mountains and pick them up with a load.

In the evening, Wang Hua went back exhausted.

This thing is more tiring than him after the battle at Yangchang Ridge.The main thing is that he knows the craft, but he has no hands-on ability, or in other words, he only has theoretical knowledge and no practical knowledge.It would be better if the palace lady has hands-on ability, everyone cooperate.But the maid's hands-on ability is very poor.So it's tiring to teach.

But after most of the day, the whole Chang'an also knew about it.

Well, this is an elegant event. The last time Wang Hua competed in lacquerware, porcelain, and talent test, it was all held in Luozhou, so it's our turn in Chang'an.

Even Xiaojiu came back with Dafeng, saw Wang Hua and asked, "Xiaoer, what's the matter with that competition?"

Wang Hua disrespected him and called him Xiaojiu. He couldn't get angry, and even though Wang Hua's position was higher than him now, he also started calling him Xiaoer.Anyway, this brother-in-law, Uncle Lang, has no manners at all.

Wang Hua sat down and explained the matter.

Dafeng said: "Xiao Er, but you have never touched a 氍毹 before, how could you do it?"

Wang Hua originally wanted to say, from the book, but think about it, Zhang Jiuling is here, probably can't hide it from Xiao Jiu.So he changed his mind and said: "I have seen some people's production process, and I occasionally think about it. It's not difficult, big sister, have you seen my failure that time?"

Dafeng thought so too, he even won the big competition last year, these two things shouldn't be difficult, besides, the second brother is best at porcelain.

Xiao Jiu said from the side: "So what, of those three blankets, you should leave one for your future nephew."

Keep that blanket?There is no door, and Wang Hua still has no way to budget it out, but it is estimated that the three blankets are finished, and the cost of labor is not known to be several million.Another point is that now Wang Hua finally knows why Xiao Yuzhen was so crazy about calligraphy and painting when she was a child.This is Lao Wu's genetics. Because of his high talent, Lao Wu is very fond of calligraphy and painting, but now that Xiaoyu has grown up, he is not as naive as he was when he was a child. Shyly begging for it.

After the successful production of these three blankets, they are not only a piece of handicraft, but also a collection of silk carving and blanket craftsmanship, as well as the culmination of calligraphy and painting.Not to mention Xiao Jiu, even Li Xian and Li Dan probably won't get it.

He shook his head and said, "No, if you want, I will go to Jiangnan in about half a month, and I will burn some good porcelain for you and give it to you. Eh, isn't that right, nephew?"

Dafeng lowered her head shyly.

"Okay, Brother Xiaojiu," Wang Hua hugged Xiaojiu fiercely, and poor Xiaojiu screamed because he squeezed her.

Hearing this news, Wang Hua's parents immediately became happy and ordered them to arrange a banquet. They were overjoyed, and they were considered half descendants of the Wang family.

After dinner, Wang Hua came to Xueziying, and there was one more thing he didn't have.Regardless of whether Sifeng's matter has anything to do with Mo Chuo, Mo Chuo actually threatened him with his family.

This is his bottom line, his reverse scale!

Now the whole family is living a happy life, but the little sister who trusted him very much when he was a child is missing. Every time he thinks of this, his heart aches, and he is actually being used to threaten him.For the sake of the country, he can take care of the overall situation, but he will not give up so easily with this bad breath.

When I came to the barracks, I saw a large group of soldiers drinking and eating.In the blood camp, drinking is fine, but don't be drunk, and fighting is more welcome, as long as you don't hurt or maim people.This is Wang Hua's ferocious spirit that stimulates the blood camp.

Most of the soldiers sat on the ground without moving after a day of hard training. Most of these people may be eliminated from the battalion.There were also some energetic people who put down their wine bowls to compete while drinking.

With one move, Wang Hua gathered the soldiers together and said, "That one will fight with me, but I want the best soldiers to go with me."

(End of this chapter)