# Orienda
> Orienda is an independent research archive explaining Chinese craft through materials, techniques, places, objects, and makers.

Canonical: https://orienda.shop
Scope: Chinese craft materials, techniques, production places and study objects.
Evidence policy: institutional sources, maker statements and direct observations are identified separately.
Commerce: inactive during the research phase.

## EN

### Crafts
- [Cloisonné](https://orienda.shop/en/crafts/cloisonne): Chinese cloisonné (jingtailan) is metalwork in which wires form cells on a metal body, the cells are filled with vitreous enamel, and the surface is repeatedly fired, ground and polished.
- [Jingdezhen porcelain](https://orienda.shop/en/crafts/jingdezhen-porcelain): Jingdezhen porcelain is high-fired ceramic made in the Jingdezhen production system of Jiangxi, using porcelain stone and kaolin-rich body recipes with techniques such as cobalt underglaze painting.
- [Lacquerware](https://orienda.shop/en/crafts/lacquerware): Chinese lacquerware is made by preparing a wood, textile-and-ash or other core, applying and curing successive lacquer layers, and polishing or decorating the resulting surface.
- [Suzhou silk](https://orienda.shop/en/crafts/suzhou-silk): Suzhou silk refers to filament-silk weaving and embroidery associated with the Suzhou region of Jiangsu, including pictorial Su embroidery made through controlled thread direction, density and colour.

### Objects
- [Blue-and-white porcelain vase](https://orienda.shop/en/objects/blue-white-vase): A blue-and-white porcelain vase is a vessel whose cobalt decoration sits beneath a transparent glaze on a vitrified ceramic body.
- [Cloisonné enamel box](https://orienda.shop/en/objects/cloisonne-box): A cloisonné box is a lidded metal container whose wire cells hold fired enamel across the exterior surface.
- [Silk embroidered panel](https://orienda.shop/en/objects/embroidered-panel): A silk embroidered panel is a textile ground carrying a stitched image or pattern, read through both its face and reverse.
- [Layered lacquer box](https://orienda.shop/en/objects/lacquer-box): A lacquer box is a lidded container whose substrate and built surface must be documented separately.

### Techniques
- [Cloisonné enamelling](https://orienda.shop/en/techniques/cloisonne-enamelling): Cloisonné enamelling bends and fixes metal wires into cells, fills them with coloured enamel, fires the surface repeatedly, then grinds and finishes it.
- [Lacquer layering and polishing](https://orienda.shop/en/techniques/lacquer-layering): Lacquer layering builds a surface through repeated thin coats, controlled curing and polishing rather than one thick glossy application.
- [Su embroidery](https://orienda.shop/en/techniques/su-embroidery): Su embroidery is a needlework tradition associated with Suzhou, known for controlled silk stitches, tonal modelling and pictorial surfaces.
- [Underglaze blue painting](https://orienda.shop/en/techniques/underglaze-blue): Underglaze blue is cobalt decoration painted on a ceramic body, covered with transparent glaze, and fired into the finished surface.

### Materials
- [Kaolin](https://orienda.shop/en/materials/kaolin): Kaolin is a pale, refractory clay whose alumina-rich composition helps porcelain bodies retain shape at high firing temperatures.
- [Natural lacquer](https://orienda.shop/en/materials/natural-lacquer): Natural East Asian lacquer is tree sap that cures into a hard, lustrous film under controlled warmth and humidity.
- [Mulberry silk filament](https://orienda.shop/en/materials/silk-filament): Mulberry silk filament is the long protein fibre reeled from the cocoon of the domesticated silkworm Bombyx mori.
- [Vitreous enamel](https://orienda.shop/en/materials/vitreous-enamel): Vitreous enamel is coloured glass powder fused by heat to a metal surface.

### Places
- [Beijing](https://orienda.shop/en/places/beijing): Beijing is a major historical centre for court-linked cloisonné production, collection and circulation.
- [Fuzhou](https://orienda.shop/en/places/fuzhou): Fuzhou is a Fujian craft centre associated with bodiless lacquerware and other layered lacquer traditions.
- [Jingdezhen](https://orienda.shop/en/places/jingdezhen): Jingdezhen is a porcelain-production centre in Jiangxi whose mines, workshops, kilns, guilds and trade networks formed an unusually complete craft system.
- [Suzhou](https://orienda.shop/en/places/suzhou): Suzhou is a Jiangnan city whose textile economy and workshop traditions are closely associated with silk weaving and Su embroidery.

### Guides
- [How to examine Chinese porcelain](https://orienda.shop/en/guides/how-to-spot-authentic-porcelain): No single visible feature proves the origin or age of Chinese porcelain; a useful examination combines the body, glaze, foot, decoration, dimensions, provenance, and the limits of the available evidence.

## DE

### Crafts
- [Cloisonné](https://orienda.shop/de/crafts/cloisonne): Chinesisches Cloisonné (Jingtailan) ist Metallarbeit, bei der Drähte Zellen auf einem Metallkörper bilden, die Zellen mit glasigem Email gefüllt und die Oberfläche mehrfach gebrannt, geschliffen und poliert wird.
- [Porzellan aus Jingdezhen](https://orienda.shop/de/crafts/jingdezhen-porcelain): Jingdezhen-Porzellan ist hochgebrannte Keramik aus dem Produktionssystem von Jingdezhen in Jiangxi, mit Rezepturen aus Porzellanstein und Kaolin sowie Techniken wie der Kobaltmalerei unter der Glasur.
- [Lackkunst](https://orienda.shop/de/crafts/lacquerware): Chinesische Lackkunst entsteht durch die Vorbereitung eines Kerns aus Holz, Textil und Asche oder anderen Materialien, das Auftragen und Härten mehrerer Lackschichten sowie deren Politur oder Dekoration.
- [Seide aus Suzhou](https://orienda.shop/de/crafts/suzhou-silk): Suzhou-Seide bezeichnet Filamentseidengewebe und Stickerei aus der Region Suzhou in Jiangsu, darunter bildhafte Su-Stickerei mit kontrollierter Fadenrichtung, Dichte und Farbe.

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### Guides
- [Chinesisches Porzellan untersuchen](https://orienda.shop/de/guides/how-to-spot-authentic-porcelain): Kein einzelnes sichtbares Merkmal beweist Herkunft oder Alter chinesischen Porzellans; eine belastbare Untersuchung verbindet Scherben, Glasur, Standring, Dekor, Maße, Provenienz und die Grenzen der vorhandenen Belege.

## JA

### Crafts
- [七宝（景泰藍）](https://orienda.shop/ja/crafts/cloisonne): 中国の景泰藍は、金属胎に線で区画をつくり、そこへガラス質の釉を詰め、焼成、研磨を繰り返して表面を仕上げる金属工芸である。
- [景徳鎮磁器](https://orienda.shop/ja/crafts/jingdezhen-porcelain): 景徳鎮磁器は、江西省景徳鎮の生産体系でつくられる高火度焼成の磁器で、磁石とカオリンを組み合わせた素地や、呉須による釉下彩などの技法を用いる。
- [漆器](https://orienda.shop/ja/crafts/lacquerware): 中国漆器は、木、布と灰などの胎を整え、漆の層を重ねて硬化させ、研磨または加飾して表面をつくる工芸である。
- [蘇州の絹](https://orienda.shop/ja/crafts/suzhou-silk): 蘇州の絹は、江蘇省蘇州一帯に関連する生糸の織物と刺繡を指し、糸の方向、密度、色を制御する絵画的な蘇繡を含む。

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### Guides
- [中国磁器を観察する方法](https://orienda.shop/ja/guides/how-to-spot-authentic-porcelain): 一つの見た目だけで中国磁器の産地や年代を証明することはできない。素地、釉、高台、文様、寸法、来歴、そして得られた根拠の限界を組み合わせて観察する。

## Machine-readable surfaces
- Full text: https://orienda.shop/llms-full.txt
- JSON index: https://orienda.shop/geo/index.json
- Sitemap: https://orienda.shop/sitemap.xml

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