What is the reeling process?

"Engraving", also known as engraving, refers to the most traditional silk weaving industry in China, which is a kind of highly decorative silk fabric. Silk reeling technology has been circulating in China for a long time, and it has been one of the royal fabrics since the Song and Yuan Dynasties. It is often used to make royal costumes such as emperors and queens, and also used to make royal statues and famous paintings and calligraphy.

What is reeling?

Silk reeling process is so named because it is a kind of double-sided silk handicraft with three-dimensional effect, because it expresses the pattern through colored weft and forms the boundary of the pattern, thus achieving the effect of carving. However, although it is silk, the weaving method of reeling is different from embroidery and brocade.

When reeling silk, there is a special machine, also known as loom reeling machine. When reeling, the warp yarn is loaded on the loom, and the drawing or manuscript is lined under the warp yarn. Manufacturers use brushes to draw colorful patterns on warp yarns, and then weave them with small shuttles according to certain areas of the patterns.

Characteristics of silk reeling

Silk reeling is a kind of collective creation, and its creative projects often consume a lot of energy and time. It sometimes takes months or even more than a year to complete a work, but the finished silk reeling works are often very ornamental and stereoscopic, and the theme of the works was very popular at that time and was very popular in the market.