LIMITED Christmas SAILOR Pro Gear Sapporo Dark Red WANCHER Makie Fountain Pen

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*Limited Edition for Christmas & New Year* SAILOR Pro Gear Sapporo WANCHER Makie Shooting Star in Night Sky Dark Red Color Gold Accents 14K Gold Nib Fountain Pen *Limited Edition for Christmas & New Year* A wonderful gift for everyone. Only from Engeika: Cartridge and Converter included All pieces are ready to ship. We will ship you your pen right after we receive your order. “Vietnamese handmade lacquer maki-e makes each painting uniquely different. We are proud to make your new Holiday pen with its own beauty” Taizo Okagaki – President of WANCHER Company WANCHER is a company that always seeks to be different and to be unique. Discovering exceptional features from different cultures & arts and combining all of them in one to make a completed wonderful art on fountain pens is one mission that WANCHER has been successful in achieving! We have seen WANCHER’s products convey the beauty of art and cultures of different countries, such as the Ebonite fountain pen edition – a combination of Indian Ebonite Art, Japanese Technology and Chinese Art, SWAN Celluloid Edition – a result of a collaboration of technologies, cultures and arts from Japan, Germany, France and Italia… In 2012, WANCHER Sailor King of Pen 21K Gold Fusion of Horizons Makie Limited Edition Fountain Pens were introduced! Part of its extraordinary features included a wonderful combination of Vietnamese lacquer makie art and Japanese high technology. And WANCHER has already received really great feedbacks and future reservations for these two editions! This time, to celebrate 2012 Christmas and the 2013 New Year, WANCHER would like to present a brand new special limited edition fountain pen with its own beauty and features: WANCHER Maki-e on Sailor Professional Gear Sapporo Night Sky - Shooting Star – Snow Stars Fountain Pen A wonderful combination of Vietnamese lacquer maki-e art, European design and Japanese technology! Vietnamese Lacquer Maki-e Art History of Vietnamese lacquer makie art According to research on visual arts, lacquer has played a significant role in traditional materials in Vietnam painting. Vietnamese lacquer painting has drawn much attention of the artistic world thanks to its unique aspects and features. Vietnamese lacquer maki-e has a long history, more than 2,000 years, being active since the period of the Dong Son culture; the Vietnamese people already knew how to process raw lacquer from lacquer trees for making useful things. Analyses show that Lacquer painting’s origin was from the traditional Vietnamese technique of painting. The know-how related to this craft was always kept secret and handed down within the clans of artisans, from fathers to children. The durability, the special colors, the complex production and its own elegant beauty make Vietnamese lacquer maki-e valuable to the entire world of art. Lacquer professionals respect its value and its exclusive features. It is said that Vietnamese lacquer maki-e creates new never-seen colors for the art of painting. Features of Vietnamese Lacquer Makie It is a very long and complex process to make a Vietnamese lacquer painting. It may take several months, normally 5 to 6 month for the artist to go through about 20 stages before finishing one piece of art. The duration of the production process depends on the techniques of the artist and how many layers of lacquer the artist uses. In order to apply all the color on the painting, the artist has to apply at least 10 layers of colors. The painting, then, is left to dry between each application. The most important part of the process however, takes place after the final layer has been applied. The artist will polish and rub different parts of the painting until the desired colors are reached. It is a long process, and has to be done carefully by using a mix of charcoal powder and human hair. The difficult thing here is that the artist needs to remember in which layer he had put a specific color and he has to be extremely careful not to rub too hard ... read more

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