Tianzhu pottery has a new type of steam pot, double-layer design, and the principle is very advanced. However, the success rate of its different models has always been a big problem, the No. 2 steam boiler is smaller, the success rate is more than 80%, and the No. 1 steam boiler is slightly larger, but its success rate is only about 20%.
Previously, they received an order from Zhujia Garden to make 20 No. 1 steam pots engraved with the buildings of Zhujia Garden, but in the end, it took more than 100 to complete the order. Maybe those who don't know will think that this is nothing, but do you know what steps Jianshui purple pottery has to go through before entering the kiln?
Starting from kneading mud and making blanks, double-layer blanks are more complicated, and then drying, repairing, decorating, carving, filling mud, finishing blanks, drying, and then firing in the kiln. If the other steps are relatively simple and time-consuming, then 80% of the decoration, carving, and mud filling are done in vain.
It is not easy to show the architectural style of the Zhu family garden on the purple pottery, even if it is pure white clay monochrome carving, it will take a lot of time to complete the decoration of a steam pot, but it is likely that the steam pot will crack, deform, or even collapse during firing, so all the previous efforts have been in vain.
You can't imagine spending a month making 100 pieces of Jianshui purple pottery, but when it comes to firing, 80 pieces have already been broken. Not everyone is optimistic about this situation as an experiment, and many more people rely on the kiln to earn money to support their families or pay the workers and keep the workshop running.
The vast majority of the process steps of Jianshui purple pottery can only be completed by hand at present, and there are too many moments of failure and tears during this period:
You work hard to make mud, pull the blank, repair the blank, decorate, meticulous, but in the process of drying the pottery cracked, a piece of waste pottery, a failure, making people cry;
You work hard to send the intact clay blank into the kiln, but in the high temperature environment of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius and many variables, the clay cracks, deforms, collapses, and the waste pottery falls short, making people cry;
Some of the qualified fire blanks were taken out and looked intact, but some small holes appeared on the surface of the work during polishing, which turned out to be a very small amount of coarse white mud left in the process of mud training, although it was completely harmless and healthy, but the work became a defective product, and it fell short, making people cry;
The overall quality of the work produced is very good, the shape is full and coordinated, the calligraphy and painting are exquisitely engraved, and the polishing is uniform and fine, but I suddenly found that I forgot to make the base paragraph. I don't know how to describe this situation of crying and laughing for a while, in short, it is tearful;
In the process of the birth of a purple pottery work, there are too many such situations. Customers are always picky, and of course there is nothing wrong with that. But when you witness the process, you realize how difficult it is to make a perfect piece by hand.
I didn't want to write this text to defend the defective products of the hand-made Jianshui purple pottery, in fact, the last thing I want to have a defective product is the purple pottery artist. From time to time, I heard someone say that someone who is more bullish and has smashed all his defective products, so everyone gave him a thumbs up and turned to criticize the workshops that deal with defective products.
In fact, it's not that these workshops are unwilling to smash defective products, more often than not, they can't smash defective products, maybe if they do, he will go out of business. To be precise, they keep slightly defective products that do not affect normal use, and waste products that lose their main function are thrown away.
The correct approach is that when they deal with these slightly defective products, they truthfully explain to the customer that the defects are in the first place, and do not affect the normal use, and the products are much lower than the qualified products
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