Feixiang weaving cloth craft

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The woven cloth with characters in Feixiang County is distributed in Zhangzhuang Village, Jiudian Township. The predecessor of woven cloth with characters is hand-woven cloth. The history of weaving cloth with cotton fibers can be traced back to the beginning of the Christian era. By the end of the 13th century, the hand-woven cotton textile technology had been widely spread throughout the country. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, folk textile technology was very developed. After the 1960s, due to the development of the machine textile industry, the production of cloth was gradually neglected, and most people no longer wove cloth. In Zhangzhuang Village, Jiudian Township, Feixiang County, woven cloth with characters has never been discontinued. In production practice, people weave single characters of "Fu" and "Xixi", as well as patterns such as "butterfly" and "lantern". At first, they were used for sheets and quilts. With the improvement of people's aesthetic concepts, the woven characters and patterns are now used for interior decoration and handicrafts, raising traditional hand-woven cloth to the height of artistic aesthetics. Woven cloth with characters is an abstract art. The calligraphy sample is pasted under the cloth reel of the loom, and the font sample can be seen through the warp. The corresponding characters can be woven by stringing the shuttle according to the font. From picking cotton and spinning to looming, the process of weaving word cloth includes spinning, turning, sizing, winding, warp, brushing, printing, unwinding, weaving, weaving, and pasting word molds to weave the corresponding fonts. Planned patterns can be woven: pepper flowers, twill, fish eyes, Xu Zhuangyuan worshiping the tower, foreign devils drilling the mountain, four chairs turning a square table, water ripples, etc. Irregular patterns: lanterns, butterflies, etc., can be woven into official script, regular script, running script, and cursive script. The word weaving skills of Feixiang County have been passed down orally since ancient times, from mother to daughter or from mother-in-law to daughter-in-law. In long-term practice, a weaving word cloth skill procedure with local characteristics has been formed. Among the remaining word weaving cloth artists, 59-year-old Li Xiangrong, 45-year-old Liu Yun'e, and 50-year-old Zheng Yunxiang, they all started learning weaving technology at around the age of 13. After years of textile practice, they can weave a variety of fonts and patterns. As long as the font sample is given, they can weave it vividly. At present, they often weave their own homespun cloth for their own use, including bedding, sofa towels, door curtains, etc. After the 1960s, due to the development of the machine textile industry, the production of homespun cloth gradually fell into disuse. At present, there are only a dozen people in Zhangzhuang Village, Feixiang County, who are engaged in weaving homespun cloth, but they are all around 50 years old. Now young women no longer learn to weave, and this excellent folk art is facing the risk of being lost.

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