Wei County, Hebei soil spinning

The history of the use of cotton fabric by Chinese people can be traced back to the beginning of the third century. By the end of the thirteenth century, handmade cotton textile technology was widely spread all over the country. Old Wei County in Hebei rural areas, every household will be woven, worn on the elders, bed use, burden, daughter dowry, are self-spinning. In the early days of the Ming, Qing and early Republican China, because of the special climate and geographical environment in Wei County, the cultivation of rural cotton was very common and the folk textile technology was also very well developed. Every family owned a wooden spinning wheel and a loom, and every household had a weaving mother. Wei County, the soil of textile technology since ancient times are oral heart, female pass or mother-in-law professor. In thousands of years of practice has formed a unique Weijian soil spinning and weaving process, weaving methods and a variety of finished cloth patterns. Weixian soil textile process is the first process of spinning, spinning the right hand agitated, squeeze the left hand drawstring, most people are the first to play a good cotton twist after the knot, and the spinning hand can often directly play a good Cotton torn into small pieces in direct spinning on hand. Textile spinning occupies an important position in the textile, because the quality of the finished product is the basis of the quality of cloth, spinning skills will directly affect the quality of finished cloth. Spinning takes the longest time throughout the entire textile process. Old Wei County adult women most of the year in home textile lines, and even a few people get together spinning lighting to late at night. After the line spun to a certain amount can be hit, dyed, pulp, the network of the. The line into the circumference of about 2 meters perimeter Shui Po, according to the need to line into the different colors of the water pot boiling, rinsing with water after a few minutes, dry. Pulp line, the first to remove the wheat gluten, boiled thin batter, the color line or white line Gua into the bowl with a thin paste kneading evenly, and then in the pulp above the rod drying sun twist, drag, so that Pulp smooth, non-stick does not, and then paste a good line of color separation in the network. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Wei County reached the heyday. Since the 1960s, due to the development of machinery and textile industry, the production of homespun cloth was gradually neglected. Most people no longer weave cloth, spinning wheel and loom were idle and some were destroyed. Since the 1990s, soil textile has re-emerged in the rural areas of Wei County. According to the survey, in 2005, there were more than 3,000 rural women in the county who took the machine to produce soil-woven cloth, but the soil-dyed soil-woven cloth had become the woven yarn of the machine-spinning hand. Since 1983, Guo Huan-yung, Lijiakoucun, Wei County, etc., have been engaged in economic and trade sales, which has facilitated the demand of local people and reduced the pain of long-time textile workers. At the same time, they also accelerated the production of hand-spun yarn and other The disappearance of traditional craftsmanship. In order to strengthen the protection of intangible cultural heritage, the Weixian County Government formed a survey team in August 2005 to conduct a comprehensive survey of the soil-dug weaving in the county, to excavate and sort out traditional crafts, protect textile machinery, collect traditional cloth samples, and collect More than 5,000 pieces of traditional hand-printed cloth were printed, and the procedures for weaving and weaving soil of Weixian County were recorded and presented in the form of words, formulas, illustrations, pictures, videos and computer designs. Innovative product design methods were also developed to formulate protective measures and cultivate A new generation of textile artists, so Weixian soil textile this precious cultural heritage endless.