Craft Characteristics of Dai Brocade

Dai brocade has exquisite weaving, chic patterns, colorful and durable. Its patterns have to be various kinds of rare birds and animals, exotic flowers and geometric patterns. Each kind of pattern color, pattern has specific content, such as red and green color is to commemorate the ancestors; peacock pattern symbolizes good luck; human elephant pattern symbolizes the grain harvest. These far-reaching, colorful patterns fully demonstrate the wisdom of the Dai people and their pursuit and yearning for a better life.

The Dai brocade has special local colors and rich life atmosphere, and its patterns are colorful. Commonly, there are animals, houses, peacocks, butterflies, jasmine flowers, shell leaves, papaya, but also trees, houses, people, dogs and horses and other patterns. Weaving patterns is a reflection of people's lives, some may also carry some kind of power, religious ideas and meanings, such as lions, elephants, horses and other patterns of the Dai brocade in the past, only the Tusi, the head of the people can use; Pagoda pattern is only in the Maung Maung temple streamers on the see. Some small insects in life are not valued by people, after treatment, or simplified or exaggerated deformation, abstracted into geometric patterns; with "humanized" nature, increase the decorative, more beautiful than the original nature.

Traditional Dai brocade weaving flowers are common octagonal flowers, square. After the liberation of the newly created to reflect the love of the ****production party "sunrise flowers", reflecting the border people of all ethnic groups to get along with the "unity flowers" and other colorful patterns. Vivid image, bright and concise, showing the wisdom of the Dai people, reflecting their aspirations and pursuit of a better life.

Color changes, the Dai brocade in Dehong love black as the background, in the diamond-shaped lattice with a variety of color line cross weaving flowers; each in the pattern of the wonderful parts of the gold line, silver line lining, color extraordinarily vibrant and moving, appearing rich and magnificent.