LearnAbout Textile Intangible Heritage
The loom is dumb, and the threads meet into warp and weft;
Zhaohui Xi Yin, color stacked into mist clouds.
The main body of textile intangible cultural heritage can be divided into four parts:
Embroidery techniques represented by Su Embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery, Yue embroidery and ethnic minority embroidery;
Weaving techniques represented by silk weaving, cotton and linen weaving, cloud brocade weaving, etc.;
The printing and dyeing skills represented by blue printed cloth, ethnic batik and tie-dye;
To Inner Mongolia, miao and other minority costumes and the inner rise of the cloth shoe production skills as a representative of the clothing skills.
The textile INTANGIBLE cultural Heritage is the excellent traditional Chinese culture that flows with colorful threads, stitches and weft -- Nanjing brocade with "brilliant colors", Suzhou embroidery with "fine, fine, elegant and clean", and Summer cloth with "light as cicada wings, thin as rice paper, soft as luo silk and flat as water mirror".
At present, China has announced 1,372 representative items of national intangible cultural heritage in four batches, including 197 items of textile intangible cultural heritage.
In addition, 40 Chinese projects have been added to the list of UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Hand Embroidery
A pair of exquisitely awkward shoes, hand-embroidered by a folk artist in Gansu province and adorned with a pair of animated dragons and phoenix-like figures, are selling for $300 online in the UK.
A pair of Chinese hand-embroidered coasters, which are in short supply in tea-culture Britain, are regarded as works of art and sell for up to $100.
The original idea is based on folk shoes from northwest China.
The dyeing and weaving of homesickness cloth in Shanghai began with the Huangdao lady during the Yuan Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty.
Homesickness is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process. Chongming people use pure natural cotton to weave homesickness through more than 70 trivial procedures. The homesickness is warm in winter and cool in summer with good air permeability.
Today, pure manual weaving, nankeen already more and more difficult to be able to do this is a rare skill, Grandma Shi of 【 Bu Bu Wei Ying】of Chongming who is one of the best cloth art, forty horses when hand spinning cloth is grandma's proudest dowry, peasant to relatives in town, before send you some cloth as a gift, that's very decent.
It is said that as early as in the Qin and Han Dynasties, people carved patterns on the two sides of the wood, and then dyed the linen and silk fabrics between the two flower plates for grass and wood. The printed cloth produced by this method is called "printed cloth", which is the embryonic form of today's blue printed cloth.
Blue and white clear pattern pattern with its elegant and quiet temperament contains deep and distant jiangnan cultural deposits.
Nanjing brocade is a handicraft with a history of 1500 years. It was a royal tribute in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Taking the loom of 5.6 meters high, 1.4 meters wide and 4 meters high as an example, only a few inches can be woven every day by two people sitting up and down at the same operation.
Real yun brocade can only be woven by hand, which cannot be woven by modern machines at all.
Nanjing Brocade Research and development of a deep and light yellow collocation and the royal sea cloud pattern, so that the product looks more like a dragon robe, made of bed products sold as high as 100 thousand sets.
a plain incense cloud to dream, inch yarn inch gold
Gambiered Guangdong Silk is the most complicated and expensive silk product from ancient times to the present. It is different from other traditional handicraft techniques that are made independently. Making xiangyun yarn is an art of collective labor. The first sight of it, will be its dignified, restrained, elegant Oriental beauty touched.
The textile intangible heritage is like a silk belt,
connecting the glittering memories of Traditional Chinese culture,
which will meet you through thousands of years of time
