Have you ceramic mug manufacturers ever seen 10-meter-high giant ceramic shoes? Yesterday, from design to firing lasted for more than a ceramic one giant shoes, and finally finished. It is understood that the giant shoes to be sent today, the beginning of April this year, Xi'an International Horticultural Exposition.
11 am yesterday, the reporter went to the Shiwan firing of a ceramic factory. There, the reporter saw the stand in the center of giant shoe factory. Main body of the shoe was the shape of tigers, colorful, shoe soles are based mainly white.
According to the sculptor from Guangzhou Sculpture Academy, one of the main designers of the work to Mr. Bo, this shoe is called tiger-head shoes, is made of stainless steel and the other made shoes, called "The Silk Road . " Tiger-head shoes, about 2.4 meters wide and 1.3 meters high is 10 meters. "Even the skeleton together, there are 8 tons of weight."
Bo said that last January by the commission of Xi'an International Horticultural Exposition, he and the designer of the Beijing Olympic Games emblem Shaohua Chen joint design, with a half a year, to work, "Silk Road" designed. "At first, half of stainless steel have been identified, while the other half, wanted to stone, but do so large, and with stones, not really."
After consideration, the final selection of a ceramic or bold. "I have fate with the Foshan ceramics, and, Foshan Ceramics and very famous, with more modern stainless steel and Foshan, the way the traditional combination of characteristics and culture, makes sense." Bo went on to explain, tiger-head shoes very Shaanxi culture, and with ceramic firing, but also very unique. The other half of the stainless steel shoe, made in Guangzhou.
Spent seven months time, the tiger-head shoes finally burn out. Bo said the tiger-head shoes today will be sent to Xi'an International Horticultural Exposition, to participate in the exhibition began in April of this year, and the works will also be permanently placed in the exhibition there.
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