Kingfisher

The lost traditional Chinese craft - Kingfisher

For two thousand years, China has been using a blue kingfisher feathers as fine art and decorative mosaic, from hairpins, hair, and the fan to the wall. When Western art collectors are concentrated in other areas of Chinese art, including porcelain, lacquer, sculpture, cloisonne, silk painting, Kingfisher Art on a person outside is strange.

Chui, namely Yu Cui Yu, Kingfisher's. Kingfisher is the perfect combination of traditional metal craft and feathers process, first with gold or gold-filled metal base made ​​of different patterns, then back bright blue kingfisher feathers carefully embedded in the seat to be made all kinds of jewelry artifacts.

And most of the fluorescence, electrochemical color animals - such as butterfly wings flash different colors kingfisher feathers that does not come from a strong feather itself, but by the light reflects the rainbow color, like a prism decompose white light into the spectrum of rainbow colors. These microstructures are formed feathers are called a photonic crystal.

Photonic crystal shape of the microscope