What is mandarin duck weaving?

One of the tapestries of ethnic minorities. The unified annals of Daming is called "patchwork". In the Song Dynasty, it was called "Xi cloth" and "Xi winter noodles". Tujia brocade is woven by waist machine, with cotton yarn as warp and silk thread as weft, and adopts the weaving method of "breaking warp and opening weft". Patterns include "48 hooks, rock wall flowers," single eight hooks ","double eight hooks ",figures, flowers and plants, etc.

Tujia brocade produced in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture has a long history. Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a Tujia girl named Xilan. She was ingenious and could weave colorful cloth with all kinds of colorful silk and cotton thread. Even the bees on the mountain will be attracted by the cloth woven by the girl from Silan. Later, she died in search of the budding ginkgo flowers. In memory of this girl, Tujia people named her "Tujia Brocade" "Xilankapu".

The main raw materials of Tujia brocade are silk thread, cotton thread and plush thread. Its weaving method is to imitate the waist weaving method of ancient oblique looms, and tie all the warp yarns around the waist to watch the back and weave the front. This can only be woven well if you have a good memory of patterns and color outlines. The products woven by this method are beautiful, neat, durable and always shiny. Its pictures are colorful, and the colors are often borrowed from gorgeous flowers, mandarin duck feathers, sunset clouds in the sky and rainbows after rain, which are beautiful, natural and vivid; Some are influenced by religious paintings and have the characteristics of elegance, simplicity and calmness. In the pattern structure, the diamond structure and diagonal lines are the main body, so we should pay attention to several.

How symmetrical, repetitive and continuous, there are hundreds of traditional patterns.

The varieties of Tujia brocade are quilt cover, armor, backpack, cushion, chair cover, etc. It is very beautiful. Changsha, Jishou and other cities have soil.