Many people will say, no.

Just like you have never heard of engraving, tenon and mortise, and drum making.

Yes, these are the bright pearls of China's traditional crafts. But at present, it is an era of pursuing speed, and these traditional crafts are naturally gradually ignored.

Carving, carving 1 tripitaka, carving 65438+ ten thousand scriptures, which has basically become the theme of a sculptor's life. You can only engrave 1 classic in your life. Can anyone do it now? Yes, but very few.

Compared with the original scale of small 8 1 times, the model of the Hall of Prayer made by Wang Zhenhua, a mortise and tenon craftsman, will not be deformed, and can be disassembled freely without glue or numbering. The whole model used 7 108 parts and 74 large parts, and the smallest part width was only 2mm. It took Wang Zhenhua five years to complete a satisfactory model of the Hall of Prayer for the New Year. It takes five years to make a model. Can anyone do it? Yes, but I've only heard of Wang Zhenhua.

To make drums, you must learn to cut cowhide first. This skill takes three years. Three years later, I began to learn to play drums. It takes 10 years to really make a decent drum. It takes 5 years to 10 years to judge whether the drum is good or not by sound. Before that, only skilled drummers could distinguish the quality of drums years ago. Some people say that there seems to be no need to play drums on any occasion now. But there are still people who inherit this craft and tear it with time.

Let's go back to the ancient coloring technology, which was originally invented for coloring cowhide. Although it has been popular in the upper class in Europe for one hundred years, although the birthplace of this craft is China, more than one hundred years have passed, but few people have heard of this craft, and even the corresponding leather goods are rarely seen in the market.

In ancient coloring, you must choose 3-5 months old plants that drink milk to tan calf leather, because the pores of calf leather have just opened, and the absorption and penetration are just right.

It will be a long time before we can see the finished product when the selected cowhide and craftsmen are available. The ancient coloring required craftsmen to rub the leather surface hundreds of times from different angles and with different strengths, and finally the effect of changing light and shade and overlapping layers could be formed.

And each layer of color, have to wait until it naturally dried, can continue to another layer of color. Hundreds of times of rubbing, according to the temperature and humidity changes in different seasons, it takes an average of 5 days to complete the coloring of cowhide. It takes craftsmen more than 300 hours to finish a leather product colored by ancient methods.

How many companies can withstand such a slow pace?

It's not that there are no leather goods painted by ancient methods on the market, but there are still too few. Once you fall in love with leather goods colored by ancient methods, it will be like addiction, which makes people want to stop.