Gaoyang County, Hebei Province is located in the North China Plain, southeast of Baoding City. This area is a famous cotton-producing area in Hebei Province. Gaoyang is known as the "hometown of textiles", radiating to several surrounding counties, providing fertile soil for the development of Gaoyang's hand-made printing and dyeing technology. Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving skills are folk handicrafts popular in Gaoyang County and surrounding counties and cities. This skill began in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished in the late Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 400 years and occupies an important position in China's textile history and modern Chinese industrial history. Gaoyang's folk dyeing and weaving industry has experienced the initial period in the late Ming Dynasty, the prosperity period in the late Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, the decline period during the Japanese puppet rule, and the transition period after the founding of New China. After several generations of ups and downs, twists and turns, it shows the tenacious vitality of the national handicraft industry and the wisdom of the Gaoyang people. As an important part of the traditional textile technology of the Chinese nation, the development of Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving skills keeps pace with the times, constantly absorbing and integrating foreign textile technology and using it for our own benefit. It has a wide variety of crafts and technologies, and the representative crafts and technologies are divided into four major types and dozens of sub-items. The four major categories are spinning, dyeing, weaving, and finishing folk crafts. Dozens of sub-items include homespun printing, local calendering technology, shuttle weaving, jacquard weaving, and local bleaching and dyeing technology. Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving skills have their own complete set of spinning, dyeing, and finishing process flows. Its products have distinct national folk art characteristics and practical value. In the 1930s, textiles produced by "Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving skills" accounted for one-third of the textile industry output in North China, and were exported to more than 20 countries and regions around the world. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, even during the "Cultural Revolution", Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving skills still maintained their complete production process and product exports, and "Gaoyang homespun cloth" was world-renowned. Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving industry has a variety of forms, including small-scale production modes such as family and workshops, as well as modern industrial and commercial production modes such as modern factories and wiring shops. Gaoyang folk dyeing and printing skills occupy an important position in the whole North China and even the whole country. It is an excellent folk culture in North China, a microcosm of traditional Chinese textile culture, and an important relic of Chinese rural economy and culture. After the emergence of mechanized mode, Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving skills will be replaced and urgently need to be protected.