The craft of dyed homespun cloth in Pei County

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The craft of dyed homespun cloth in Pei County is mainly distributed in Longgu Town, Wuduan Town, Yangtun Town, Weimiao Town, Huzhai Town, etc. along the Weishan Lake area of Pei County. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, the Yellow River burst, and the victims from all over the country migrated to the shore of Weishan Lake, bringing the local dyed homespun cloth craft to Pei County. Every family spun yarn and spun homespun cloth with various patterns and colors. It is an ancient textile handicraft that the people in the lake area of Pei County have preserved relatively intact. Due to the relatively remote living environment of the people in the lake area, they are less affected by foreign cultures, and the patterns of dyed homespun cloth have always retained strong traditional characteristics. The craft of dyed homespun cloth in Pei County is a carrier of the historical culture, geographical environment, religious beliefs, aesthetic tastes and other factors of the lake area, and is a combination of practicality and decoration. The craft of dyed homespun cloth in Pei County is a primitive textile handicraft that is relatively intact in the lake area of Pei County. Women in the lake area generally start learning brocade at around ten years old. They use a very primitive wooden machine to pass the warp and break the weft, pick and change the weft yarn, and hand-feed the wooden shuttle to weave. The most common of these is patchwork processing into bedding, children's skirts, shawls and clothes. The yarn-dyed homespun cloth adopts the method of passing the warp and breaking the weft, which is the "shuttle digging" process in textile weaving. The warp is continuous and uninterrupted on the surface of the homespun cloth, and the wefts of various colors are only interwoven with the warp where the pattern is required. Due to the interlacing of the warp and weft, the traditional Peixian yarn-dyed homespun cloth technique is only suitable for expressing relatively simple shapes. With the transformation of society, the evolution of people's lifestyles, the influence of foreign cultures, and the updating and development of various types of fabrics, the changes in people's aesthetic tastes have accelerated the demise of Peixian yarn-dyed homespun cloth techniques. Folk yarn-dyed homespun cloth artists are gradually getting older, and the existing artists are aging. The traditional technology is not systematically protected, and there is a lack of successors to the technology. If not rescued, the Peixian yarn-dyed homespun cloth technique will be on the verge of extinction. Information source: Xuzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Information source: Xuzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center

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