The skin carving is an artistic expression with a deep history.Due to the complexity of its craftsmanship,it is still dominated by pure hand sculptures.Cordwainers usually carve on the vegetable tanned leather with a rotary guillotine knife,and tools for edging,carving,tapping,rubbing,pressing,etc.This unique carving art is also known as "soft relief" and the "living fossil" of folk arts.In recent years,with the development of leather carving in China,it has found an increasingly wide utilization in cultural innovations as a special cultural expression of traditional craftsmanship.This article puts this topic as a research direction to elaborate the design method and connection between leather carving and cultural innovations.Firstly,this article will elaborate the relative outline of the skin carving,and popularize the concepts of the skin carving from the development and rises of the craft and meaning.Building arguments through discussing the mutual dependence relationship between spiritual consciousness and material carriers between skin carving and cultural innovations.Then analyzing the artistic characteristics of skin carving,cultural innovations,and applying it to the Characteristic Design of Cultural Animal Products of Wild Animals.In the design and application of innovations,the combination of skin carving modeling and cultural innovations,the well-established skin carving process and the texture of cultural innovations,and the artistic expression of skin carving and the connotation of cultural innovations are integrated into three design methods to complete the designs.Thus,it calls for modern people’s love for wildlife and the natural environment. |