Savoir-faire
Trying Your Hand at Japanese Urushi Lacquer
Create your own lacquer work butterfly by using masters’ techniques: applying color, Maki-e and mosaics in mother-of-pearl
Immerse yourself into craft tradition and find out about the practice of this exquisite artisanal art: the Japanese Urushi Lacquer technique.
A Lacquer Master will lead you in discovery of the ancestral technical secrets and will help you to make your own lacquered piece.
As if you are in a lacquer workshop, using tools and materials from far away, you create your own lacquer work butterfly by using three of the lacquer masters’ techniques: applying color, Maki-e and mosaics in mother-of-pearl.