Raw Materials, Tools and Equipments for lacquer craft

Raw Materials, Tools and Equipments

• Jau (Lacquer)
• Bamboo stick
• Clay
• Kiln
• Heating pot
• Charcoal

Collection of Lacquer

Lacquer source: The remarkable nature of this strain is that it thrives on a species (Samanea saman or Albizia saman) locally known as - Bada chakunda, khirisa or Nidrabati other than conventional lacquer host trees like - Kusumi and Palash.

Collect from forest: One of the equipment obtainable abundantly in natural world and known to man from very premature times in the use of art and craft is lac or shellac.

• Lac is resinous substances which a female insects produces in a translucent reddish fluid , when it is embeded in a kind of cylinder of Pipal, Bel or Bar tree twigs to lay its eggs.

• The secretion of reddish fluid is gatherd on the branches of the host tree. After lying eggs the insects leave the branches.

• Then collectors cut the branches bring those to the storage point called as ‘ Lakhghara’ in odia.