Inventory of Tibetan specialty handicrafts are what

We like to buy some local handicrafts to bring home as a souvenir of each place we visit. Most of these crafts have local characteristics, is the product of local culture and folk crafts. As we all know, every place will have some very characteristic handicrafts, so in Tibet you know what some handicrafts? Let's have a deeper understanding of Tibetan culture.

Tangka

Tangka is a kind of scroll painting with a strong Tibetan flavor, most of which are statues of Buddha and Bodhisattvas, and there are also some paintings of flowers, birds, landscapes, and wall charts of medicine and astronomy. The style of cloth painting and coloring, brocade, embroidery, woof and appliqué, due to the Tibetan folk drawing thangka artists more, the former in the Tibetan folk easier to buy, the latter several kinds of mostly cultural relics. The oldest collection in Tibet at present is the woof thangka and painting thangka of Song Dynasty.

Tibetan Carpet

The wool of the Tibetan plateau has the advantages of coarse, hard and elastic wool, which is very suitable for making carpets. Tibetan carpets are world-renowned for their unique quality and cultural connotations. And the most famous Tibetan carpet is Gyantse carpet. Gyangtse carpet, also known as Gyangtse Karmat, is made of cotton yarn for warp and wool for weft; the dyes, except acid dyes, are also made of juice of wild plants, ores, and color soil, etc., which are matched into thirty-six different colors.

Jiangzi carpet is characterized by sharp colors, does not fade. Jiangzi carpet pattern, initially to the old temple mural-based, mainly two dragons playing beads, flowers, birds and animals, landscape painting and so on. Jiangzi carpet has a history of more than six hundred years, it is textile precision, durable, pattern rich in ethnic traditions, bright and colorful.

Serge

Serge is a woolen fabric woven with wool, which is used to make robes worn by Tibetans. All over Tibet, especially in the Yarlung Tsangpo and Nyenchu River Basin, most of the farming families also weave serge. In their spare time, men and women sit on looms and weave cloth, and the sound of the loom overflows in the villages and fields. Langjie Xue Town, which is separated from the Yangzuo Yong Lake Ranch by a mountain, is a famous serge production place in Tibet. Here home weaving "GaYang" serge, is with the sheep neck and sheep stomach near the soft hair weaving, especially fine and soft, in the past as tribute to the emperor.

Tibetan knife

Lazhi Tibetan knife is a representative of the Tibetan knife in the latter part of Tibet. Tibetan knife not only has a strong practicality, but also has a high artistic appreciation value. Collecting Tibetan knives has become one of the hobbies of many people. The body of Tibetan knife is made of forged steel, carefully processed by hand to make the blade sharp and the surface of the knife clean. Tibetan knife from the size of the specifications can be roughly divided into long knife, short knife and knife three kinds. The longest knife is more than one meter, the short knife is about 40 centimeters, the knife is only a dozen centimeters long.

From the shape, with strong local characteristics, there are pastoral style, Kamba style, after the Tibetan style and other differences; use, there are many kinds of points, such as forests to cut down trees have a special tree cutter, slaughter knife, and even the sky burial ground with a special knife. Tibetan knife handle more to cow horn, cow bone or wood made of high-grade knife handle with silver wire, copper wire and other winding, the sheath is more elaborate, in addition to the simpler only wooden sheath or leather cover, most of them are wrapped in brass, copper, and even silver, and above all engraved with a variety of exquisite birds and beasts and flowers and plants and other patterns, and some also inlaid with a variety of gemstones, gold-plated and so on, appearing extraordinarily gorgeous and rich.