1.DianCui

Dian Cui (literally translated from Chinese mandarin) is a traditional Chinese crafts for making gold and silver jewelry. It plays the role of embellishment and beatification for jewelry. Cui, is the feather of Kingfisher namely. The technique is the perfect combination of traditional metal workmanship and feather crafts, which is produced as the following procedures: firstly make base of different patterns with gold or gilded metal, then inlay the bright blue feather-like materials carefully in the base to be made into all kinds of jewelry items.

2.Filigree inlay

3.Chinese Art Silk Scarf

The artistic scarves designed and made by our EJOVE craft masters are elegant and atmospheric in style, exquisite and detailed in design, bold and novel in color matching, and exquisite in workmanship and materials. Each scarves represent a different theme, it depicts a Chinese symbol with different background and profound cultural connotation.

The works can be used as fashion accessories to match any clothes and occasions to show your high-grade taste, but also can be mounted into a picture frame, as a very aesthetic value of the interior decorative arts, also has the collection value as an artistic gift.

The Chinese nation has a long history and a wide variety of traditional symbols, colorful: Dragon, auspicious clouds, Chinese characters, eight diagrams, paper-cut, shadow puppetry, dramatic masks, national costumes, Chinese porcelain, Chinese embroidery, Chinese lacquer ware, Chinese kites, etc. , these traditional Chinese elements are the quintessence of Chinese culture, which have historical and cultural values and aesthetic values. Our art masters take the silk which represents the Chinese civilization as the carrier, continues these elements to our modern life.

Our EJOVE scarves from the design to the production, must go through strict 17 processes, a collection of many exquisite wonderful craft. First, the design stage of the manuscript: the concept of the theme → Reference to information and field collection → determine the design materials → hand-drawing the original large draft of the pattern → according to the production process to determine the color sets → copy the manuscript after manual drawing → after the completion of the manuscript will be converted to Pantone color code for 3-5 different color matching; Then the manuscript is scanned and converted into an electronic version, enter the color Seihan and proofing stage: Seihan → paste-mixing → manual plate printing → A series of post-processing → to complete the first proofing → to adjust the inaccurate color proofing again until confirmed → into the scarves bulk production stage → after the printing stage finished the scarves hand-curling → quality inspection and packaging. It is printed by hand screen printing, subject to less restrictions on color, a scarf in 10-30 colors, in the process of printing accurate version, to appear flawless, layered, an effect that is consistent with the original drawing. In this way, each scarves through layers of checkpoints, from design to production takes about 3 to 12 months to be born.

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4.Accordion- Dragon scale binding

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“Dream of The Red Chamber” in Accordion-Dragon scale binding. This is a modern hybrid of the traditional accordion and dragon scale binding technique. By spreading out the folios, and lifting up gently the squamas, audience is brought progressively into the scenes of the ‘Dreams of Red Chamber’.

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Every folio contains a core squama assembled with the dragon scale binding technique. Song Dynasty scholar and book critic Zhang Bangji described in his documentary book “Mo Zhuang Man Lu” as: “… flip page after page while unfurling to the end, the scroll remains integral.” The overall sensation is depicted as “a dragon flies among the pages, whilst the book (is also being animated as if it) prances like a dragon.”

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The covering plate of each volume is mounted with delicate silk and Nanjing brocade to match with the blurry and implicit scenes of the “Dream”. Each volume is staged in a crystalline acrylic box, displaying the natural and authentic look of the “Dream” in a “Accordion- Dragon scale binding” way.

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