HUE TRADITIONAL CRAFTS

A completed lacquer painting will have to have many different types of materials including: paint, color... In which, the main material to make lacquer paintings is the latex extracted from the bark of the lacquer tree. The latex of the lacquer tree has high Gmail and is durable, resistant to different climatic conditions such as rain, salt water, high humidity. 

Until today, the materials commonly used to create a lacquer painting include: Paint: extracted from the lacquer tree, in addition, other oils such as castor oil, tung oil, or pine resin and dó resin are also used. Color: Traditional lacquer often only uses 2 basic colors, black and red, they are created from inorganic minerals (for example: lipstick) so they do not wear out or change color before light and time.Graphic products made from silver such as silver leaf, dead silver, ground silver, silver snake. Graphic products made from gold such as gold leaf. Some other materials depending on the artist's creative ideas: snail shells, eggshells, pearl shells, scallop powder.