{"product_id":"mother-of-pearl-business-card-box-crane-and-pine-tree-motif-on-purple-silk-ground","title":"Mother of Pearl Business Card Box: Crane and Pine Tree Motif on Purple Silk Ground","description":"Lacquer wares inlaid with Mother of pearl \n\nNajeon Chilgi, the wooden lacquerware inlaid with Mother-of-Pearl, is truly a cultural asset of Korea. \n\nThe art of Najeon Chilgi is used to make items from jewelry boxes to chests, dressers and desks. \n\nThe two main materials used in making Najeon Chilgi are the lacquer coating and mother-of-pearl. \n\nKorean mother-of-pearl made from the shining, unchangeable beauty of pearl oyster or abalone, is considered to be the jewel of the Orient. \n\nTraditional technique is a complicated and painstaking process consisting of more than twenty steps. \n\nThe manufacturing can be roughly divided into several processes;\n1. pasting hemp cloth on the surface of the wooden frame,\n2. coating the surface with natural lacquer \n3. spraying powdered ox bone on the surface, \n4.inlaying the patterned mother-of-pearl on the pitch black background. \n5. and then repetition of lacquering and polishing. It takes 3~6 months to complete a product.\n\nDimensions:\n13x9x5.5cm","brand":"Mother of Pearls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43071850807527,"sku":"","price":127.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/0100\/1191\/products\/il_fullxfull.3549885229_6xvy_a7e50f5e-7fe1-47de-a7ca-47c136c4fe97.jpg?v=1650688732","url":"https:\/\/www.artinko.com\/products\/mother-of-pearl-business-card-box-crane-and-pine-tree-motif-on-purple-silk-ground","provider":"ArtinKo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}