Original Message:   When in doubt, trawl YouTube - Beijing-style Diao Qi lacquer

Three short videos, containing such interesting tidbits as that the shop's humid basement is the lacquer workshop, they can only apply lacquer twice a day, that it takes a lacquer tree 5 years to produce a kilo of paint, that machines carve some of the less expensive designs, and that the red coloring is a "rare natural mineral." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZv5NvxDGR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_TWbtKmrOs (if you can only stand to watch one, episode 2 is most informative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Ebv5ZUCCs Copyright 2024 All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users

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