In ancient times, there were cloth stickers to convey the meaning, and now there are golden wire hook charm. A few days ago, two works created by Li Aimin, the representative inheritor of the provincial intangible cultural heritage project Golden Silk Color Sticker, "Zodiac Tiger" and "Fabric Tiger" were simultaneously selected for the Shandong Province "Yingchun Nafu Tiger Tiger Shengwei" Tiger Cultural Creative Derivative Exhibition.
On January 20th, walking into Li Aimin's studio on Dongfanghong East Road in the Economic Development Zone, a series of golden silk color stickers containing tiger elements came into view, such as cartoon tigers, majestic tiger heads, and Shangshan tigers with chinese painting charm... Lifelike, leaping on paper, adding a strong Flavor to the upcoming Year of the Tiger.
Li Aimin, 52 years old this year, is the fourth generation of heirs of gold silk color stickers, and has been engaged in gold silk color for nearly 30 years. "Gold silk color sticker is a new craft style that integrates folk cloth stickers, Gongbi Chinese paintings, cloisonnés, asphalt pastes and other art forms, which is refined by hand, filling a gap for the mainland arts and crafts industry." Li Aimin said that the gold silk color paste seems simple but the process is very cumbersome, taking the tiger element series of works created this time as an example, a "Shangshan Tiger Shenwei" is spliced together from more than 100 pieces of cloth, from painting the model to mounting, to go through the design pattern, the next model, cutting the fabric, pasting, gold wire outline and other processes, in order to make the whole work more realistic, convey the spirit, have a three-dimensional sense, but also need to be polished later, the entire production cycle is up to two weeks or so.
Not only that, when making the tiger in the picture, the treatment of facial expressions is the "highlight" of the whole picture. "The tiger's face is the key point to reveal its demeanor, and there are more details, relatively cumbersome, but it is also crucial, especially the mouth teeth and whiskers, as well as the treatment of the eyes, if not in place, it is difficult to highlight the characteristics of the tiger." Li Aimin said.
Because of this, when making this realistic style of gold silk color paste works, Li Aimin is particularly cautious, and each step must be repeatedly considered, and if he is not satisfied, he will rework again.
According to reports, the earliest evolution of gold silk color stickers from folk traditional cloth stickers, originated from the daily life of people in ancient times, the original cloth stickers are simple flower and bird images, such as Mandarin ducks playing in the water, happy on the plum, etc., with the progress of people's thinking and the maturity of skills, the pattern of cloth stickers is gradually enriched.
The first to create the gold silk color paste process was Li Aimin's father, Li Fusheng. In 1992, Li Fusheng improved and created on the basis of traditional cloth stickers, made gold silk color stickers with gold silk thread and various textiles as the main raw materials, and expanded the traditional cloth paste process into flat wall-mounted arts and crafts. The content of the gold silk color stickers is mostly ancient and modern figures, flowers, birds, fish and insects, forest buildings, etc., which reflect superb artistic skills and also reflect the social scenes at that time, which is the perfect integration of history and art.
After that, Li Fusheng passed on the technique of gold silk color stickers to his son Li Aimin. On the basis of inheriting traditional skills, Li Aimin constantly absorbs advanced technology and popular elements, in order to do a good job in the details of the color change of the gold silk color paste, he has tried many times and added the technique of gongbi painting to his work. The addition of the brush painting technique makes the color more natural and flexible, the layers are richer, and the picture is more vivid. Such as the change of petal color, a simple piece of cloth is difficult to reflect, after the addition of the brush stroke technique, a few strokes can make the whole picture come to life.
With the development of handicrafts, people's requirements for handicrafts have become higher and higher, and another thorny problem has followed. In 2005, when Li Aimin participated in the Dezhou Economic and Trade Fair, a customer looked at the gold silk color sticker and said: The color of your products is too single, and if you want to make better results, you need to work the material and fabric. A few words made Li Aimin wake up like a dream. In order to find the cloth he liked, he almost traveled to the large cloth markets in Shaoxing and other places. "In the end, I found fabrics with textures and gradients, which made the work more textured than solid-colored fabrics." Li Aimin said.
The work "Shangshan Tiger Shenwei"
"Continuous innovation, continuous absorption of advanced technology and popular elements, and cultural connotations to the work can make this craft better inherit and grow." In Li Aimin's view, inheriting traditional skills cannot be stuck to the rules, but must continue to design and launch new products. Therefore, in order to welcome the arrival of the Year of the Tiger, he specially created a series of works of tiger elements, including 4 works of "Zodiac Tiger", "Fabric Tiger", "Shangshan Tiger Shenwei" and "Xiashan Tiger Xiongfeng", which means that the golden tiger sends blessings and blessings.
"Cloth Tiger"
"Because it is close to the Lunar New Year, there are many more orders than usual, and more orders are customized for customers, mainly tiger element series works, and more than 200 related works have been created." Li Aimin said that in today's increasingly high degree of mechanization, gold silk color stickers have been adhering to the pure hand refining, and their works have been sold in major cities across the country and exported to more than 20 countries and regions overseas.
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