Sentence examples for lacquer techniques from inspiring English sources

Other lacquer techniques are also being used on dials.

"I have personally made about 70 timepieces with various lacquer techniques in the past years," Mr. Pauli said.

In the period 1925 30, two European sculptors, the Belgian Marcel Wolfers and the Franco-Swiss Jean Dunand, successfully approximated the true Oriental lacquer techniques in a few art objects of clay, wood, and bronze.

The carved lacquer technique developed in Yuan China was emulated in a somewhat simpler manner in Japan.

"It's a very labor-intensive process," says Yvonne Force, who is the president of her own curatorial consulting firm, referring to the Luo brothers' layered lacquer technique.

Practically every lacquer technique known gets a workout to create an object of staggering formal finesse, expensive gorgeousness and almost zero utility.

The team uses a traditional lacquer technique to create images of bright red Chinese calendars with all the common symbols of luck and prosperity, like chubby babies, ripe peaches or fat fish.

SINGAPORE — The complex Japanese lacquering technique known as maki-e is often found on luxury pens, but only a few companies have applied it to watch dials.

The first master artisan on my list was 88-year-old Francisca Tulais Urbina, one of the last practitioners of macre (MAH-kray), a pre-Hispanic wood lacquering technique that achieves a warmer, less glossy surface than Asian methods.

Nearby, at Art Vietnam, Truong Tan uses traditional Southeast Asian lacquer painting techniques to rail against attitudes toward homosexuality in his native Vietnam.

Many wares are handmade in villages where lacquer and bamboo techniques have been perfected over centuries.