Where is the specialty of Baiyangdian reed woven fabric?

Ziyang Lake District, located in the middle of Hebei Plain, has been rich in fish and reeds since ancient times and is known as the "hometown of fish and reeds".

The water area of Baiyangdian Lake is 460,000 mu, including reed field 1.2 million mu, with an annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons of high-quality reeds. Its reed is white in color, flexible in texture and fine in fiber, which is an ideal raw material for developing reed textile industry.

Reed weaving is a traditional handicraft in Baiyangdian Lake. There are many skilled craftsmen in the water town, and their reed woven products are not only white reeds in Baiyangdian, but also have strong local characteristics. The exported reed woven products include five varieties, including vertical curtain, thread curtain, fence curtain and reed top, and 28 article numbers. There are five specifications of vertical curtains, all of which are made of 8 mm thick reed rods connected in series. The curtain is carefully woven with brown rope as the diameter and peeled reed as the weft. Mainly used as sunshade curtain and door curtain in living room. It is both practical and decorative. The fence curtain is made of reed instead of skin, which is used to change clothes in the beach and protect the garden from the wind. Reed ceiling is made of more than two layers of reeds woven into different patterns and then glued to plywood. Mainly used as wallboard of rooms and ceiling of roofs. Its patterns include cross pattern, square pattern, triangle pattern, herringbone pattern, pepper eye and so on. Decorating the interior with reed ceilings makes people feel like they are in the natural scenery.

Baiyangdian reed woven products are very popular in Japan, France, the United States, Italy and other countries because of their fine workmanship, beautiful style and soft color.