An Multimedia Japanese Comb

#Gold #japaneselacquer #multimedia 

Gold lacquer wasn't always applied only to black backgrounds on wood. On this antique haircomb we see gold lacquer and shell combined. Whereas our ancestors would have valued brooches and hat pins or necklaces for a Japanese woman who could afford it haircombs usually  took the place of jewellery.

Note also how the use of the shell for wings and flowers contrasts with the gold leaves.

Golden Gao

GOLDEN GAO 

Want to do a metallic effect? 

I applied Inkscape filters over a unihan generated svg.

You try it too!

Look up the unicode or unihan for a character then use text and control u 

with that character and once you have your svg add any filter you like!