( Update: 04/03/2019 )
The job of making incense uses the domestic materials available, the simple way, the small capital, the family workers from young to old can all contribute.
Material : Ingredients used in making incense are abundant in the country:
1. O-mangrove bark flour grows along the banks of rivers and streams in the forests of Tay Ninh, Thu Dau Mot, Bien Hoa and Ba Ria regions. The scientific name cinnamomun argenteun belongs to the Lauracées type, not very large, the stem diameter is 25-30 parts, the leaves are large like the mango leaf, the statue and the upper face are glossy. In the bark of the mangrove tree there is a viscous, sticky substance.
2. A variety of bamboo plants and plants to split into incense sticks.
3. Agarwood, eucalyptus and cinnamon trees are abundant in central provinces such as Quang Tri, Thua Thien and Quang Nam.
4. Gold products, red and blue and black products for dyeing incense sticks and jasmine paper.
Tools: Tools for making incense are very simple. Incense incense is often used to make incense sticks, incense sticks only need a long table, pots of gourd and a round table made of wood or corrugated incense to make incense or incense, then use a small piece of board with a knob to hold and use to roll incense. If you make incense sticks, there is a flat wooden mold, there is a chisel-shaped groove on the top, big and small depending on the size of the incense you intend to make.
How to make incense: There are three types of incense sticks, incense sticks and incense sticks so the method of making incense is slightly different, but except for the way of making incense sticks, for both types of incense, there is the main job:
- Split feet Incense
- Making incense powder
- Making incense
- Bundle of incense and closing the card.
1. Splitting incense sticks
- The first step is to split the incense sticks. Incense foot made of bamboo, need to choose thick bamboo such as bamboo and for example bamboo must not be too young and not too old.
- Bamboo trees are brought to the table to be cut out in short sections with incense sticks using sharp knives and split into small sticks (soaked in water and dried to make them burn). Then split the bars into the foot of the incense sticks after splitting into holes with holes in the corrugated iron or tinplate and closing on the wooden table, such as for bamboo and rattan to be smooth and round. But for incense that usually means incense sticks, earth incense, it doesn't need to be smooth, just leave it as it was.
- Incense legs are bundled into one bundle (ten thousand or 100 thousand) for sale. The split incense sticks were dyed red below to plug into the incense bowl before making the incense sticks themselves, or later dyeing.
2. Making incense powder
- Powder to make you compress incense to get the bark of the mangrove tree. People buy or go to the forest to grow in the tree - the mangrove leaves to dry, then use the stone mortar to crush (smash) the powder. Bring the flour and sieve it to be small, smooth, whichever is bigger, put it in the mortar and pound it for the second time. Fine powder is called powder coat to cover the outside of the incense and make it made of wood and it is small and the big powder is called powder to keep inside. When making aromatic incense or card incense, you have to use deep wood, eucalyptus, cinnamon, cut it into small pieces and chop it carefully.
3. Make yourself incense
At the time I scooped up with oyster powder and other dough, take a table of 2 meters long, on the table to make 3 piles of flour:
- The first pile is the lake of mangrove powder
- The middle pile is half a half-coat tank
- The third pile is lake powder and two-part powder coat
Take the bamboo legs divided into each small handle, use a pair of muscles to subtract the bottom of the incense sticks, then dip the incense section to wrap the powder into the cold water tank to submerge the tip of the japonica.
Embed n uBefore long, pull out the bamboo so that it drains very well. Make sure that the head of the bamboo has dipped in cold water into the first pile, then dipped it into the powder and immediately let it fall down to the table and hold the jars out to avoid sticking it into the dough, pulling it out, dough, do so d65 three times, when there is no more water coming out of the incense stick. Bring it to the shelf to dry and then grab another handle and dip the dough. Usually dipping a single leg, then this time taking the dipped water, dipping the dough, then dipping it back into the cold water, then burying it into the second pile of powders (there is half powder, half of the dough). This time, there was already a powdered mango in the incense sticks, it was possible to leave the water, so having to hold the head of the incense stick a little, and dipping it into the water should also take out the incision into the pile of stuff. 3 (1 part powdered starch and 2 parts powder coat). This time, you should spread your legs out like a fan, then lay down on the table and sprinkle with the pile 3, then grab the bunch of bamboo and shake the excess powder that clung to the incense, then put it up and put it on the shelf. dried. The bamboo foot is 3 times dipped with water, 3 times the dough is as big as a chopstick, but the dough is not yet tightened, it must roll before it will be rolled back. When making incense sticks, sticking cheap soil, you must take a container of old nails, or find a box of corrugated iron, zinc, iron with a height of 40 centimeters. Bring the incense sticks, head down to the bottom of the barrel, put the container down, and then roll it back and forth to get the new incense done, make sure you come back. Roll for 15, 20 minutes, then bring it to the rig and dry it in the sun. This incense is classified into 200 trees for sale. After dipping, put it on the shelf, let it dry and let it dry. The bamboo foot is 3 times dipped with water, 3 times the dough is as big as a chopstick, but the dough is not yet tightened, it must roll before it will be rolled back. When making incense sticks, sticking cheap soil, you must take a container of old nails, or find a box of corrugated iron, zinc, iron with a height of 40 centimeters. Bring the incense sticks, head down to the bottom of the barrel, put the container down, and then roll it back and forth to get the new incense done, make sure you come back. Roll for 15, 20 minutes, then bring it to the rig and dry it in the sun. This incense is classified into 200 trees for sale. After dipping, put it on the shelf, let it dry and let it dry. The bamboo foot is 3 times dipped with water, 3 times the dough is as big as a chopstick, but the dough is not yet tightened, it must roll before it will be rolled back. When making incense sticks, sticking cheap soil, you must take a container of old nails, or find a box of corrugated iron, zinc, iron with a height of 40 centimeters. Bring the incense sticks, head down to the bottom of the barrel, put the container down, and then roll it back and forth to get the new incense done, make sure you come back. Roll for 15, 20 minutes, then bring it to the rig and dry it in the sun. This incense is classified into 200 trees for sale. or find a box of corrugated iron, zinc, iron with a height of 40 centimeters. Bring the incense sticks, head down to the bottom of the barrel, put the container down, and then roll it back and forth to get the new incense done, make sure you come back. Roll for 15, 20 minutes, then bring it to the rig and dry it in the sun. This incense is classified into 200 trees for sale. or find a box of corrugated iron, zinc, iron with a height of 40 centimeters. Bring the incense sticks, head down to the bottom of the barrel, put the container down, and then roll it back and forth to get the new incense done, make sure you come back. Roll for 15, 20 minutes, then bring it to the rig and dry it in the sun. This incense is classified into 200 trees for sale.
Incense sticks, incense sticks are not very fragrant, because there is no flavor in the incense. Incense not to sell, but not put into bags.
How to make incense or incense sticks
Fragrant incense is the type of incense in the aromatic wood mix such as bass, talk, cinnamon, often this incense contained in a bag or card, each has 60 trees, so people call it incense.
Materials make incense sticks as well as make incense sticks, but the method is different. Partial is a lake powder mixed with aromatic powder, mixed with cold water. Another part is aromatic powder mixed with a little powder, sifted and then dried to use as a powder.
Fragrant powder is made of wood from deep trees, eucalyptus and cinnamon, which are spread small and carefully sifted.
Making:
After mixing, stuffing, then grab your hand and make it into a small, round lump like a rat's tail. Take a stick of incense and put the mouse tail with the powder and roll it to cover the incense sticks. If you want to evenly and evenly round it, take a piece of flattened tree, horizontal 10 pans, along 20 stools, 1 centimeter thick, the back has a handle, hold the knob and roll on the incense stick, roll over and over several times for round and smooth. When the incense was smooth, then bury it in the pile of dried clothes again to allow the flour to be eaten into incense sticks, so the new incense tree was beautiful, fragrant. After the sun is finished, the sun is dried and put into the bag, usually each bag has 60 incense sticks. Fragrant incense costs money so the price must be higher than normal incense.
Very fragrant and semi-expensive joss sticks are Hue incense sticks and Indian incense sticks. Indian incense fragrant with a special, very strong smell, only for Indian people used to use this incense to worship, our needs are less demanding of this type of incense. This one is small and I am small.
In Hue incense, my legs and legs are also smaller than regular incense sticks but they are very fragrant because they are made of deep wood, pounded incense, royal herbs and fillings. If there is material and technical means, it is also recommended to make this incense for sale.
Make incense rings
Incense sticks are special types of incense, less than two types of incense sticks and fragrant incense. Round incense powder is a powder that makes incense incense, but a different way. Or take the incense powder into the tree mold (wood) with a small chisel chiseled in a whirlpool or wring into a long piece of wire and then roll it into a cone-shaped piece of wood, rolling in a spiral. When finished, push the incense sticks out to squeeze into incense and dry. When it is dry, pack the box with a drop of paper to cover it. You can make incense in another way, but the above two are simpler