Summer cloth production process (second batch of provincial level) Summer cloth is a kind of plain cloth made of hemp by pure hand-woven. The production of summer cloth can be traced back to the Warring States Period in ancient my country. The Book of Songs says: "The land of the East Gate can be used to retting ramie", which shows that the history is long. Ramie, the raw material used for summer cloth, is a specialty of my country, accounting for 90% of the world's total production, so it has the reputation of "Chinese grass". Ramie is a fiber crop with air permeability several times higher than cotton fiber. It also has anti-corrosion, anti-bacteria and anti-mildew functions. The summer cloth woven with ramie is easy to wash and dry, breathable and ventilated, cool and comfortable to wear, and is an ideal summer and autumn clothing material, so it is named "summer cloth". Ramie is rich in Xinzhou, Shangrao and other places. Thousands of years ago, the ancient Yue ancestors engaged in ramie cultivation here and used it for hand-woven cloth. It continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the Xinzhou summer cloth gradually formed a climate. Xinzhou Shaxi Town has always been known as the "hometown of ramie", and summer cloth has always been its pillar industry. Eighty percent of the farmers in the area are good at growing hemp and weaving cloth. Xinzhou summer cloth is exported to more than 20 countries and regions including South Korea, Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The production of summer cloth in Xinzhou Shaxi consists of 12 manual processes, including growing hemp, soaking hemp, peeling hemp, bleaching, spinning hemp, forming threads, twisting hemp balls, combing hemp, paddle-loading, and weaving. The quality and quality of ramie raw materials are used to make various grades of summer cloth. Its varieties can be divided into plain cloth and ribbed cloth according to the warp and weft, and into coarse cloth, medium cloth, and fine cloth according to the thickness of the hemp line. The fine cloth that has been bleached is snow-white, delicate, light and soft, and is known as "hemp silk". Today, the local summer cloth is mainly produced in the mode of company plus family. The scene of men, women, old and young in every household weaving hemp together using traditional looms has become a unique landscape in Xinzhou Shaxi.