Rebirth Space: The Eldest Daughter of a Farming Family

Chapter 124 Making Blue and White Porcelain

Mu Ziyan didn't hide or dodge, and let Lu Chengping scrutinize her. After a while, Lu Chengping withdrew his gaze and said, "Yan'er, since you have already made a decision, then grandpa will not force you. Feel free to come and find grandpa if you need something in the future."

Mu Ziyan smiled and nodded: "Grandpa, Yan'er still has something to do, so let's go first."

Lu Chengping waved his hand, turned and walked back, and Mu Ziyan quickly came to the kiln factory.

"Yan'er, you are here, everything is ready." Lu Shangrui stepped forward and said softly.

Mu Ziyan looked around, but she didn't find the skinny middle-aged man from yesterday, and all the masters were fine, so Mu Ziyan nodded in satisfaction.

"Uncles, let's start. Find a few paintings and draw them. I will teach them separately."

The three brothers Lv Shangrui quickly divided the masters into three parts, one part made porcelain mats, the other made color mats, and the other part controlled the kiln's heat.

Mu Ziyan was very satisfied, and looked at many masters: "You may have more than decades of experience, and you may look down on me as a little girl from the bottom of your heart, but I don't care what kind of mentality you have, because I will use it soon. Facts hit you in the face."

All the masters looked at each other and whispered to each other. Mu Ziyan raised the corners of her mouth and didn't continue to say anything. She looked at the three brothers Lu Shangrui and said, "Let's go, three uncles. I will teach you how to adjust the clay pot first when you enter the inner room."

The three Lu Shangrui brothers followed Mu Ziyan into the inner room, where the three brothers usually work.

Mu Ziyan walked inside and began to make various preparations. The three brothers Lu Shangrui looked surprised and anxious.

An hour later, Mu Ziyan walked up to a pile of porcelain stones and explained as she worked, "Uncle, I found out that you made mistakes in many steps when making porcelain. First, when you grind the stones into powder, the powder is not fine enough and there are many impurities. After we grind the stone powder, we must use a sieve to remove impurities and start kneading the mud.
When kneading the mud, the air bubbles in the mud must be removed to make the mud more compact.

Uncles, keep in mind that without this process, air bubbles will easily appear in the green body, and the green body will be easily deformed and broken when fired after drying.
The most important thing is that the finished rough billet needs to be dried naturally in the shade for a certain period of time.The temperature of natural shade drying is very important, and it should not be exposed to the sun.

The green body must be placed obliquely on the blank plate, and cannot be placed upright, otherwise the bottom will be cracked.

After the green body is naturally dried in the shade, the semi-dry body is polished until the outer body is evenly knotted.

Next, let's take a body and I will show the uncles how to glaze it.

We apply the inner glaze first, and the outer glaze is dipped for the second time later. Maybe you don’t know what dipping means, and I will give you a demonstration later.

Next, let's talk about the blank painting. After the blank is coated with inner glaze, it can enter the blank painting process.

I have already prepared the blue and white materials for the painting. I only pass this process on to three uncles. I will tell the three uncles about this process when I get home at night. We must keep the pigment formula in our own hands and not spread it to others.

I believe uncles also know, but the muddy water I am talking about is different from yours.The charm of blue and white porcelain is like an artistic ink landscape, and the beauty of blue and white, in addition to fine painting, also makes the landscape in blue and white have the beauty, delicacy and layering of traditional ink landscape, and all this comes from the muddy water This craft.

Uncles, after this process, there is another process of covering glaze.There are many ways to cover the painted porcelain embryo with a layer of glaze, including four methods: sticking glaze, dipping glaze, brushing glaze, and blowing glaze.The length of time that the porcelain body is immersed in the glaze water directly affects the appearance of the fired porcelain.

(End of this chapter)