Arts and crafts value is the value of art

Jade articles, wood carvings, porcelain articles, and embroidery articles ... have gradually become "off the shelf" gifts. However, to buy such "luxury gifts", you must have some "eyesight".

Artwork that is too cheap or expensive may have "funny"

The day before yesterday, in a handicraft shop on Lijinan Road in Hankou, the reporter saw a “Jade cabbage” asking 200 yuan. The store owner said with certainty, "The material is definitely jade. However, the goods are generally cheap, and of course the price is cheap."

In this regard, Tian Bo, who has been operating crafts for more than a decade in Wuhan, explained that if the price of jade or brass handicrafts is relatively low, it is very likely that resin is used as the material and paintings have only been done on the outside. Although it cannot be seen in the short term, after three months or six months, the exterior of the craft will fade.

Tian Bo reminded that there are still some businessmen who use modern technology to deal with the old craftsmanship known as “fine imitation” or “high imitation” in the market to sell antiques and gain profits, mainly to seize the consumer’s “price equals good goods”. Psychological. In fact, when the price is too high, consumers should not take it easy.

Mass-produced decals do not have artistic value. The reporter visited some of the process porcelain shops in Wuhan. Mr. Tan, who has been operating porcelain for many years, describes that porcelain is divided into hand-painted and decals. Some merchants use decals to impersonate hand-painted works. However, mass-produced decals do not have much value. In this regard, consumers can use a magnifying glass to watch the lines on the porcelain, and the decals are highly controllable, while hand-painted works are random. However, whether a piece of hand-painted porcelain works is valuable or not, the weight of the author occupies an important position.

According to the owner of the porcelain shop in East Asia, the owner of Xu Yadong introduced that due to the different hard conditions such as soil, the defective rate is generally as high as 80%. A good porcelain crafts needs to go through 72 processes, and the cheap porcelain sold in stalls or shops is not available. The value of craftsmanship is that the real boutique will not be mass-produced, but it will be hand-crafted and produced only by one.

The value of arts and crafts is expensive. In an interview with the word "gong", a wood carving craftsman introduced that a good piece of material would not be worth carving, and the value would be greatly reduced. Good materials need to meet a good carving master, otherwise it is a waste.

As for embroidery products, the owner of Bo Xie, who has been operating hand-embroidery for many years, introduced the characteristics of “flat, uniform, fine, dense, light, smooth, uniform” and embroidered techniques. It takes many years of skill accumulation and clever ideas to complete a fine embroidery product. The fineness of the work is a measure of value. The machine embroidery "is only worth tens of dollars, just a piece of cloth only." Many businessmen use machine embroidery as hand embroidery, confusing audio-visual, consumers must have professional knowledge.