Between the materials and the designs stands the craft: how the ground is made ready, how the powder is held, how a hand learns to draw a line it can trust. Technique is the tradition’s least visible layer — viewers see designs, not the years of practice inside them — and its most durable one, since designs vanish daily while the skills that make them persist for a lifetime and transmit for generations. The essays in this chapter describe that craft; the named style entries will join them as their terms complete the vocabulary lifecycle.
Techniques
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