Craft · 工藝
One piece of wood, one line
No assembled heads, no plating, no shortcuts. The red lines below are not marketing — they are the specifications a factory has to pass.
Every MOZAN pin begins as a single block of black ebony. The flower at the top is not attached — it is what is left of the wood after the rest has been taken away.
Single piece 整木
Head and shaft from the same block. No glue joints, no dowels, no spliced sections. If a joint would make production easier, the design is rejected instead.
Micro-curve ≤ 8° 溫和微弧
The shaft stays within eight degrees of a vertical centre line. Not a U-shape, not a crescent, not a banana — those snap under tension and look like costume.
Matte grain 微磨砂
Micro-sanded to a low sheen with the grain legible. No lacquer, no high-gloss finish — gloss reads as plastic under daylight.
Dimensions
| Shaft length | Fixed per design — currently 18 cm on every pin, measured tip to base of the carved head. Longer 20 / 25 cm models come later as designs of their own. |
|---|---|
| Diameter | 6–8 mm at the base, 5–6 mm mid-shaft, ≥ 4 mm at the narrowest point of the head carving |
| Weight | ≤ 12 g plain series · ≤ 20 g with a silver head |
| Carving depth | 0.8–1.5 mm shallow bas-relief, Song-dynasty court-painting restraint |
| Tip | Tapered and rounded — must pass through a bun without catching |
The three series
Flower Goddess
Twelve months, twelve blooms, each head finished in silver filigree set into the ebony. The most ornamented of the three — still small still quiet. Heads are inserted, never glued.
Classic Ink
The everyday line. Classical form, minimal carving, an optional jade bead no larger than 3 mm set in a silver collar. Nothing hangs, nothing dangles.
Twelve Ink Blooms
The plain version of the goddess calendar. Same flowers, same curve — but carved purely in ebony with no metal at all. The newest series, and the quietest.
What we refuse
- No U-shaped forks or double prongs — they belong to cheap hair sticks, not 簪.
- No plastic flowers, no resin, no printed grain.
- No tassels or dangling beads — nothing that swings while you work.
- No rhinestones, enamel, or abalone inlay in the plain series.
- No glue anywhere in the assembly.
- No spliced or laminated wood.
- No high-gloss lacquer.
- No symmetry-breaking bending — every piece is checked against the eight-degree template before finishing.
See it on
Every pin page carries the size guide, the wearing shots, and the detail shots.
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