Travel-World Photography
Most charter tourist trips include visits to some sort of factories, or the like. In our case, we were "towed" to a factory making silk, another making pearls, and a third making cloisonné.
Silk Factory
Silk spinning wheel. A silk work makes a very long thread, sometimes up to 900 m
Knotting silk carpets with dense knots (up to 100 per cm2) is tiring work
Sales department showing silk carpets
Food time
The food boiled at the table
Our smiling server lady
Cultivated Pearls
Entrance to a pearl factory
An open oyster pearl
Pearl necklaces on display.We experience a strong preassure to buy!
Cloisonné Factory
Studying the pattern to be soldered on an object
The designed pattern is drawn on the brass vase
Enamel paste is deposited between the wires
Enamel pase put on a bowl
After being a kiln to fire the enamel: Polishing wheel, which generate a lot of dust, and which results in an unhealthy workplace
Final polishing
Display of finished goods inside the factory itself
A final result, with enamel in-between the pre-solderd small "walls" of wire
The sales department, with a large amount of products
Vases and bowls
A huge vase made with this technique
