Liuli Crystal

About Liuli Crystal / Glass Jewelry Art

Liuli Crystal was praised as the first of Chinese Top-five famous wares (The rest are gold-and-silver, jade, pottery, bronze). Liuli was the term used to describe glass during the Chinese Tang Dynasty. Since ancient times, Liuli glass art wares were exclusive for the imperial family, and the requirement for the users’ grade was extremely strict, that’s why it was so rare in the folk. In the religious scripture, the ‘Light of Liuli’ signifies the elimination of greed and desire, illumination of the spirit of Buddhism and the spreading of the glory of Buddha far and wide. They are said to bring good fortune and luck for people. Our products are totally hand-made by Chinese Master and her apprentices with great fame in Beijing handicraft industry. Learn more

How to Make Crystal / Glass Jewelry Art by Hand

( The Chinese famous "fire sculptor" is creating LiuLi by hand)

The manufacturing technology of the colored glaze is quite complicated, containing dozens of processes to finish, the making course of some fine works will take more than ten or twenty days, and depend on the hand mainly. Each process needs elaborate treatment, controlling the duration and degree of heating depends on luck halflings and the rest on skills. As for coming out of the stove, the finished products just take on 70%. More essentially, unlike gold and silver products, the colored glaze made by ancient method is not recoverable, that means a little flaw will spoil all efforts. So there are not two same pieces of colored glaze in the world.

The raw material should be melt into various kinds of colored crystal glass under a high temperature of more than 1400°C, and then after being carefully chosen and washed many times, it should be put into the mould according to the proportion. The furnace temperature must be controlled less than 1000 °C ±5 °C with the rising or dropping curve of the temperature being established strictly. The course of firing will last over 15 days to make the crystal materials precise in each detail, and then a piece of exquisite, three-dimensional, streamline works will be attained.

A mould can only be used to fire one piece of works. The large-scale complicated works even need to be mold and fired many times. The low success-rate makes the works more valuable. The works is issued in the whole world with quantity limitation, which makes each of the works more worthy of being collected.

A piece of works of colored glaze should have artistic vitality. The bubbles existing in colored glaze provide more imagining space and magic power. The bubble is the breath of the colored glaze that is a common understanding in the world of the colorful glass art.

Compiled by Alan and edited by Jackie from Chilture
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