Carving decorations are generally now pottery billet on the word painting, and then according to the word book carving. Carving tools available bamboo knife and steel carving knife. Engraving techniques have two kinds of engraving and empty bottom characters.
Fine works, with a slanting knife carving method, can be carved out of the spirit of the upright; ordinary varieties of flat knife carving method, in the pottery billet directly under the knife, the first does not paint, which is "single into the side of the knife hair," commonly known as the "empty knife method", the knife instead of the pen.
Pottery carving decorative method, generally can be divided into clear carving, sand carving, Yang carving, yin carving, coloring carving five. According to the different shapes of zisha pots, apply different methods to decorate.
Pottery carving knife method can be roughly divided into two categories, namely, "double knife into the method" and "single knife side into the method". In addition, there are also astringent knife, late knife, stay knife, light knife, cutting knife, dancing knife and other gold and stone knife method.
There are several different types of engraving methods for Zisha pots.
Write clay engraving: Zisha pot clay blank still contains 20% of the water, the round blunt iron pen or bamboo knife for engraving.
Wet clay engraving: Zisha pot clay blank nearly dry and hard state, that is, with a sharp iron knife for carving.
Dry billet engraving: after the clay pot is basically dry, the ink draft is drawn with a sheep's hair, and then the knife is used to carve according to the strokes.