But was the colour a lacquer of heat upon some familiar metal?
He stared at it in amaze, his brain a racing wild-fire of hypotheses to account for this far-journeyer who had adventured the night of space, threaded the stars, and now rose before him and above him, exhumed by patient anthropophagi, pitted and lacquered by its fiery bath in two atmospheres.
That simple dancing of well-covered matrons, laying aside for an hour the cares of house and dairy, remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side--that holiday sprightliness of portly husbands paying little compliments to their wives, as if their courting days were come again--those lads and lasses a little confused and awkward with their partners, having nothing to say--it would be a pleasant variety to see all that sometimes, instead of low dresses and large skirts, and scanning glances exploring costumes, and languid men in
lacquered boots smiling with double meaning.
The crowd parted as the woman beckoned Mowgli to her hut, where there was a red
lacquered bedstead, a great earthen grain chest with funny raised patterns on it, half a dozen copper cooking pots, an image of a Hindu god in a little alcove, and on the wall a real looking glass, such as they sell at the country fairs.
The lama, very straight and erect, the deep folds of his yellow clothing slashed with black in the light of the parao fires precisely as a knotted tree-trunk is slashed with the shadows of the low sun, addressed a tinsel and
lacquered ruth which burned like a many-coloured jewel in the same uncertain light.
She looked at her eternal furniture, her curiosities, her
lacquers, and said to herself that all these fine things wanted was a master.
ISLAMABAD -- Lok Virsa would organize a month-long children summer camp in traditional skills including
lacquer art and block printing here at Heritage Museum, Shakarparian, Islamabad from June 25.
ISLAMABAD: Lok Virsa would organize a month-long children summer camp in traditional skills including
lacquer art and block printing here at Heritage Museum, Shakarparian, Islamabad from June 25.
A graduate in the field of sculpture, in 1990 Kum Sokunthea chose to follow in the footsteps of her father-in-law, late
lacquer master An Sok.
BY THE time you read this, an ultra-rare cinnabar
lacquer throne decorated with nine imperial five-clawed dragons and probably sat upon by the Qianlong emperor - he ruled China from 1736 to 1795 - will have been sold at Christie's in London for around PS1m, possibly more.
The process involved preparing and adding layer A rare Chinese cinnabar
lacquer treasure box, the lid decorated with a lion dog resting her paw on her young, to be sold on May 21.
(01691) produces black
lacquer; arsenic sulphide, known as orpiment, which is found in volcanic hot springs, produces yellow and mercury sulphide, the distinctive deep coral red of cinnabar.
The process involved preparing and adding layer after layer of thin coatings of
lacquer to a wooden base, each of which needed to cure before it could be polished so the next one could be applied.
[USPRwire, Wed May 08 2019] The
lacquer market continues to be in a transformative phase, as solvent-based
lacquers give way to water-based variants.
[ClickPress, Fri May 03 2019] The
lacquer market continues to be in a transformative phase, as solvent-based
lacquers give way to water-based variants.
