Traditional lacquerware craft kept alive in Lanzhou college(1/7)

Students and teachers use traditional methods to make lacquerware at the Lanzhou Polytechnic College in Lanzhou City, Northwest China’s Gansu Province. The process of decorating a cup with layers of lacquer usually takes 20 days. Lacquerware refers to a variety of traditional crafts that have lacquer as their surface layer, sometimes with the addition of gold or silver sheets, eggshell, or other materials. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Yutao)

Students and teachers use traditional methods to make lacquerware at the Lanzhou Polytechnic College in Lanzhou City, Northwest China’s Gansu Province. The process of decorating a cup with layers of lacquer usually takes 20 days. Lacquerware refers to a variety of traditional crafts that have lacquer as their surface layer, sometimes with the addition of gold or silver sheets, eggshell, or other materials. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Yutao)

Students and teachers use traditional methods to make lacquerware at the Lanzhou Polytechnic College in Lanzhou City, Northwest China’s Gansu Province. The process of decorating a cup with layers of lacquer usually takes 20 days. Lacquerware refers to a variety of traditional crafts that have lacquer as their surface layer, sometimes with the addition of gold or silver sheets, eggshell, or other materials. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Yutao)

Students and teachers use traditional methods to make lacquerware at the Lanzhou Polytechnic College in Lanzhou City, Northwest China’s Gansu Province. The process of decorating a cup with layers of lacquer usually takes 20 days. Lacquerware refers to a variety of traditional crafts that have lacquer as their surface layer, sometimes with the addition of gold or silver sheets, eggshell, or other materials. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Yutao)

Students and teachers use traditional methods to make lacquerware at the Lanzhou Polytechnic College in Lanzhou City, Northwest China’s Gansu Province. The process of decorating a cup with layers of lacquer usually takes 20 days. Lacquerware refers to a variety of traditional crafts that have lacquer as their surface layer, sometimes with the addition of gold or silver sheets, eggshell, or other materials. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Yutao)

Students and teachers use traditional methods to make lacquerware at the Lanzhou Polytechnic College in Lanzhou City, Northwest China’s Gansu Province. The process of decorating a cup with layers of lacquer usually takes 20 days. Lacquerware refers to a variety of traditional crafts that have lacquer as their surface layer, sometimes with the addition of gold or silver sheets, eggshell, or other materials. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Yutao)

Students and teachers use traditional methods to make lacquerware at the Lanzhou Polytechnic College in Lanzhou City, Northwest China’s Gansu Province. The process of decorating a cup with layers of lacquer usually takes 20 days. Lacquerware refers to a variety of traditional crafts that have lacquer as their surface layer, sometimes with the addition of gold or silver sheets, eggshell, or other materials. (Photo: China News Service/Liu Yutao)