Purple
rivers and lakes
Weapon Spectrum
Please don't laugh at me, a person who can't make purple clay pots, is obsessed with collecting tools for making pots. I feel that I am much happier than the "military fans", who no matter how much they like to study aircraft carriers, can not achieve the desire to collect.
Needles, wall cars, rectangle cars, silk rulers, singles, hooks, stalks, wire stems, leprosy, top pillars, twisters, mud chopsticks... The names of these tools are so funny, it sounds quite good to pronounce in Wu Nong's soft language, and it sounds like you, a layman, confused, and have no idea what it does.
Trout knives, all kinds of sharp knives, mouth knives, cutting knives, bone needles, so that there is a taste of cold weapons, hold in the hand, and the warm purple mud touch, is so dripping sexy!
I really can't imagine that the production of any other artwork will require extremely complex tools like the Yixing purple sand pot. To make a pot, sometimes you need to use hundreds of tools, different styles of shape, tools have different variations. The sophistication of the classification is breathtaking. For example, the pine pot in the flower goods has a special tool for pushing loose skin and cutting pine needles. Some artists with more varieties of production have several boxes of tools used. If a variety of pots are made only once, then the special tools are used only once.
Think about it, what a great pot art "arsenal" this is!
Many pot makers have the habit of making tools by hand, especially the masters, who are extremely particular about the modeling process of the tools, the same beats, decks, turntables, and treacher knives, there are Gu Pai, Xu Pai or a certain style. But have you ever heard that calligraphers make their own brushes, or that generals build their own submachine guns? One small thing is enough to prove the incomparable charm of pot making tools.
In 2002, at the International Ceramics Creation Camp held in Romania, Yixing purple sand making tools were a big hit. At that time, foreign potters knocked on clay pieces and rolled them with sticks, and beat them with square sticks, which took a lot of effort, and the thin slices they hit were seven high and eight low. The circle is drawn with a line on the nail to draw the mark of the circle, and then cut out with a knife, can it be cut round?! Mr. Xu Xiutang, a master of Chinese arts and crafts from Yixing, took out a ride and a moment car, tried it out, and killed the whole scene in seconds!
I really want to write a legendary pot-making "Weapon Spectrum"! However, there is a small problem of "two" that has puzzled me for many years: if you must rank the weapon spectrum of the handmade pot, who can sit in the top three? I have a "ranking fetish"!
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The handmade pot making tools that are both concise and scientific and suitable for hand are repeatedly modified and improved by pot makers in the process of making pots for hundreds of years.
Master Xu Xiutang believes: "This is also one of the three traditional skills with the most inheritance value in the traditional skills of purple sand. ”
Source: First edition of "Intoxicated Yixing"
Producer: Xu Peng
Produced by Yixing Rong Media Center