Traditional Japanese Art Craft Kin-Makie Greeting Card
Makie is the thousand year history of special craft. Its origin lies in the verb ‘maku’ meaning ‘sprinkle’. We sprinkle gold or silver powder or fillings on the still damp lacquered design. Kin-Makie card is produced by using the painstaking traditional methods which repeat ‘printing’, ‘sprinkling the powder’, ‘drying’ and ‘polishing’. Kin-Makie Greeting Card is the warm and elegant hand-made art forms.
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