Lacquer engraving
Lacquer engraving, which is applicable to staple products sold on domestic and abroad markets, is one kind of important decorative techniques of Yangzhou lacquerware industry. The process of this technique is engraving various patterns with different knives on the finished lacquer base, and then filling in colors, covering with gold leaves and scattering pearl scraps according to the tableau. This technique can be divided into six technological processes, namely engraving, shovelling, smoothing, coloring, covering and scattering. The main artistic characteristics of this technique are smooth lines, vivid images, even colors and impressive-looking.

Bone-and-stone inlaying technique
Bone-and-stone inlaying technique, which is a traditional kind of Yangzhou lacquerware, was created by a native of Yangzhou , Zhou Zhu of the Ming Dynasty. This decorative technique use ivory, ox bones, mica, pearl shells, abalone, Shoushan stones, Qingtian stones, etc. As materials to make products with artistic features of rich colors, equisite craving, beautiful designs, strong plastic effect and vividness by means of relief, circular engravure, hollowing-out, surface inlaying, inlaying, golden drawing and other techniques. The products are mainly used in making all sorts of ordinary, medium-grade and high-grade screens, floor screens, furniture, tourist souvenirs, gifts and so on.

Yangzhou polished mother-of-pearl lacquerware
Yangzhou polished mother-of-pearl lacquerware has a strong local style and great effect in the country due to its characteristic workmanship. The process of this decorative technique is choosing high-quality pearl, shells, mica, abalone and other materials firstly. After being polished, they have become thin slices with different colors and then are cut into pieces according to the tableau demand and finally inlaid onto the lacquer base. By means of fine lacquer-coating technique, the products have artistic effects of being as smooth as a mirror, limpid, sharp contrast between black and white, noble and graceful. They are applicable to mass-producing furniture, screens, handing panels, gifts and tourist souvenirs.

Lacquer carving technique
Lacquer carving technique was created during the Tang Dynasty. The first procedure of the technique is coating about one hundred to hundreds of layers of the Chinese raw lacquer on the object and then carving various patterns and beautiful decorative disigns with full knife technique. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, on the basis of lacquer caving technique, the craftsmen of Yangzhou lacquerware selected and used jadeite, agate, lapis, white jade, coral, green jade, pearl shells, ivory and other high-grade materials to carve different relief design and then inlaid them onto the lacquer carving decorative patterns. It is a kind of creative lacquer carving and jade inlaying technique in Yangzhou.

Mother-of-pearl dotting technique
Mother-of-pearl dotting technique is protected specially by our country as a high-grade technique. ‘Dotting’ means technique and ‘pearl’ means material. The process of this technique is selecting green snails, peal shells, abalone and other high-grade materials to cut into many pieces as thin as cicadas wings, as small as pinpoint and as dainty as autumn hair. Then they are dotted onto the smooth surface of the lacquerware base with special tools one by one. By means of delicate lacquer-coating technique, the product has artistic style with gorgeous colors and can change with light. Over the years, many of the mother-of-pearl dotted products have been selected as state gifts to the foreign heads by our country or collected as national treasures.

'Lacquer inkslab'
'Lacquer inkslab' was created during the Song Dynasty and greatly developed by the famous lacquer masters Lu Ying-zhi and Lu Kui-sheng during the Ming Dynasty. The technique was lost during the late period of the Qing Dynasty. In 1979, our factory began to develop it and resumed it in March, 1981, and then was appraised by relevant experts. The product has the characteristics with moist endowment, strong but not hard, delicate but not slippery, giving off ink without damaging hair and can be on a par with Duan inkslab and She inkslab.