Materials

Kaolin is a pale, refractory clay whose alumina-rich composition helps porcelain bodies retain shape at high firing temperatures.

Natural East Asian lacquer is tree sap that cures into a hard, lustrous film under controlled warmth and humidity.

Mulberry silk filament is the long protein fibre reeled from the cocoon of the domesticated silkworm Bombyx mori.

Vitreous enamel is coloured glass powder fused by heat to a metal surface.