The raw sap of the Chinese lacquer tree is a severe skin irritant that causes allergic reactions in most people. Yet this same toxic substance, applied in dozens of paper-thin layers over months or ye
The raw sap of the Chinese lacquer tree is a severe skin irritant that causes allergic reactions in most people. Yet this same toxic substance, applied in dozens of paper-thin layers over months or ye
The raw sap of the Chinese lacquer tree is a severe skin irritant that causes allergic reactions in most people. Yet this same toxic substance, applied in dozens of paper-thin layers over months or ye
Chinese lacquerware is older than writing: a Hemudu bowl sealed in red gloss 7,000 years ago began a craft of carved and inlaid vessels still made by hand.