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The Work process of Chinese Lantern Festival

Zigong lantern festival is folk handicrafts with exquisite production techniques and diverse shapes. They are famous at home and abroad for their “shape, color, sound, light and motion”. Now, we will introduce the production process steps of Zigong Lantern festival.

1. Design: The renderings are an essential process for making Chinese Lantern Festivals. It is convenient for workers to follow the drawings and design different elements, colors, styles, and other desired visuals.
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2. Construction drawings: The construction drawings show the specific details of the Chinese Lantern Festival and are mainly used for production. The construction drawing includes the shape, structure, material, process, size, etc. of the lamp.

3. Stakeout: Stakeout is a very important process in the process of making Chinese Lantern Festivals, which can be done on the ground or on gypsum boards. According to the construction drawings, the artist draws the outline of the lantern to the ground according to the actual proportion. This process determines the final shape of the lantern.

4. Modeling: Welding modeling mainly uses iron wire as the main material. Ordinary modeling workers will copy the lofted graphics one by one and weld them into a plane frame, and then senior modeling workers will make the plane frame into a three-dimensional frame.

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5. Lighting installation: Bind the cables to the frame according to certain rules, and place corresponding light sources for lighting according to the size of the space. Common light sources include LED light bulbs and light strips.

6. Papering: According to the design drawing, select different fabrics, apply special glue, and stick different colors of fabrics on the frame in different colors.

7. Art processing: Since the fabric is a solid color, the pattern or gradient color on the design drawing cannot be fully expressed. At this time, the artist needs to use various painting tools to beautify and embellish the details on the fabric to make it more beautiful.

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Post time: Dec-29-2022