Traces of Handcraft: Not Machine-Made

A set of elements with clear human hand marks. The plaster on the wall is hand-applied, showing variations in trowel direction and pressure; the wooden surfaces retain the subtle ripples of hand-planing rather than the perfectly smooth finish of machine sanding; the ceramic washbasin is hand-thrown, with uneven thickness and a slightly crooked rim; the textiles are hand-woven, with variations in warp and weft density; the floor tiles are hand-pressed, with a 0.5 mm difference in size for each piece. These irregularities combine to give the space a feeling of being made by human hands, rather than mass-produced. Compared to the perfect uniformity of industrial products, the eye lingers longer on these subtle differences. Avoid: using perfectly uniform machine-produced materials, smoothing out hand marks, exaggerating irregularities to look like construction flaws, using printed textures that imitate handmade ones.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組帶有明顯人手痕跡的元素。牆面的灰泥是手工抹的,可以看見抹刀的方向與力道的變化;木作的表面保留手工刨削的細微波紋而不是機器砂磨的完全平整;陶製的洗手盆是手拉坯的,厚薄不均、口沿略歪;織品是手織的,經緯的密度有變化;地磚是手工壓製的,每一塊的尺寸有零點五公釐的差異。這些不規則加起來讓空間有一種被人做出來的感覺,而不是被生產出來的。與工業產品的完全一致相比,眼睛在這些微差上會停留更久。避免:使用機器量產的完美均勻材料、把手工痕跡修飾掉、讓不規則誇張到像施工瑕疵、使用仿手工的印刷紋理。