The Innovative Research Of Traditional Kingfisher Craft In Modern Jewelry Design

Feathers decorating is the ubiquitous cultural phenomenon in human cultural history. In China, has widespread artistic panache, and its tradition and orderly process activities and aesthetic innovation, reflecting the Chinese craft practitioner of natural cognition and transformation of the aesthetic concepts of practice and understanding. Among these, the processing of the main points kingfisher feathers spread wide range of emerald craft, time span, process feature strong, its decorative applications to court etiquette, fashion down to the folk are involved in its cultural, artistic, craft and other aspects of the most unique, called the world’s cultural and artistic treasures feathers.In recent years, the search for research and application of Chinese traditional culture has become the focus of jewelry design community. More and more foreigners want to learn more about Chinese culture. At the same time, China has experienced design community designed to imitate the West, have begun to re-inherit the knowledge of the national style. Kingfisher process is our outstanding traditional handicraft, steeped in history, a long history, from generation to generation, the earliest origins can be pushed to the Warring States Period. Through a very long period of development, achieved a peak in the Qing dynasty Qianlong period, and its beauty cannot be replaced by other art forms.. Kingfisher is a very distinctive type of work in the j ewelry production, can be good for gold and silver j ewelry, playing a role in beautifying embellishment. Tsui or CuiYu stands for the feathers of kingfishers. Kingfisher high degree of integration of China’s thousands of years down the spread and development of metal craft with feathers, metallic material chosen more for their gold or gold-filled, first processed into a variety of patterns form the base, and then the back of the beautiful kingfisher Turkish blue feathers one by one by one in a metal inlay on the base, to produce all kinds of jewelry artifacts.Jewelry made with Kingfisher craft always has good gloss, great colors, and its colors will never fade.Kingfisher process is the process of China’s traditional gold and silver j ewelry, has a more complex process, it is very difficult to save the finished product, and the kingfisher feathers, which is used to adorn is really rare, in addition, conflicts and collisions between modem environmental protection and traditional crafts led to threat of extinction of Kingfisher process. The majority of the current kingfisher craft accessories on the market date back to the Qing Dynasty. And there are few modern kingfisher jewels. Therefore, this paper will elaborate from different perspectives of Kingfisher process, i.e. the concept, the classification, the craftsmanship, the materials as well as the patterns. By analyzing the functions of traditional Kingfisher craft jewelry decorative arts techniques and forms, combined with modern jewelry related features, identify their common features and breakthrough, to provide new development directi on for modern jewelry design.