- Red Hare, exudes a strong atmosphere and a solid, healthy body stylized in a harmonious manner with soft brushstrokes. Red Hare color was inspired by Xich Tho, the famous "red horse full body" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
- This work is suitable for customers who love the strength and resilience hidden in a beautiful, shaggy, stylish appearance.
- The work is created entirely by hand, through twenty rigorous stages of traditional Lacquer.
Each La Sonmai lacquer product made scrupulously by artisans is an art work in high aesthetic value. In order to make a lacquer product on traditional mode, it must spend time and effort with around 15 strict steps. Once the base object is made, its surface must be prepared for lacquer ornamentation, then objects coated with the treated, dyed and dried sap of wax tree paint, applied in several coats to a base. The ground coating is important to smooth the substrate before the final application of the lacquer. The following steps is to brushes, let the products dry in the drying cabinet and then grinding and polishing. The final step is decoration which are included lacquer painting, inlaid materials such as gold leaf, silver leaf, egg shell, seashell,... and raised the final lacquer wear as protection.
★ 100% Traditional handicraft product.
★ Each of our products is the result of a time-honored handmade process. It takes us 15 – 20 days and goes through 15 stages to complete one product.
★ Natural lacquer (resin from lacquer tree).
★ Special materials such as real gold 24k and silver leaves, eggshells.
✽ Since our products are fully handmade, each product will be unique with its own colors and effects. Please check our customer reviews photo for more details.
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Passion & Craftmanship
The quest for La Sonmai is to create unique and original products that are beautiful to look at and practical to use in daily life. Our phone cases are not only a protection for your phone but also an exquisite accessories for your style.
Art of Lacquer
Lacquer Tree Sap
The original paint was taken from the sap of the Son tree, which were plant in Phu Tho Province in Vietnam. The sap then stired continuously within 3 or more days to make it usable and applicable on other materials.
Lacquer Steps
Lacquer paint is applied to the paint surface mutilple times to create different layers of paint. After applying and then drying process, the surface is smoothen by the stones from the rivers. The stones are the brushes in fine arts and the smoothening process is the way artisans draw the lacquer paintings.
Eggshells
The process of inlaying each piece of eggshell requires carefulness and patience. It might sound a little strange that they orderly arranged in random positions. The eggshell is sometimes shapened to create the painting highlights.
Hand-Painting
Sketching the details of the painting need to be done entirely manual. The sketching for details might take up to 30 hours to finish.
24Kt Gold & Silver
Pure gold and silver leaves are also used during crafting products. The leaves are quite delicated, therefore, skillfull hands are specifically required.
Color Creativity
The basic colors of lacquer are black, red and dark brown. Since the evolution of Lacquer Art, artisans in Lacquer techniques have developed more sophisticated colors to fully describe and express their feelings through the paintings. Thus, more colors are combined and new colors are used in various ways and details.
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