Buyi Crafts

Buyi brocade is a kind of folk craft of the Buyei people. The brocade surface is similar to silk, is in the ancient cloth machine, with dyed green or blue yarn for the warp, with colorful silk threads for the weft, after careful counting yarn shuttle, picking and inserting, weaving from the exquisite brocade.

The materials and process of brocade weaving are as follows:

1. Cotton threads dyed black are used as warp threads; red, yellow, blue and white silk threads are used as weft threads.

2, the tools used in brocade weaving are looms, wire boats, carding boards, spinning wheels and so on.

3, the beginning of brocade weaving, first of all, the warp line up, installed in the loom; and then use the colorful silk threads into the wire boat (threading the silk threads of the tool), according to the weaving pattern of the required color weaving into the next.

Weaving brocade has a wide, narrow two kinds of its operating procedures are very complex, in the loom on the number of yarn shuttle, weaving a variety of patterns in the heart, often cost a lot of time. A foot wide, can only weave three or four inches a day, a little narrower every day can only weave a few feet. Buyei Cloth production process: selection of flowers, embossing, playing flowers, shuttle flowers, spinning, pulling the line, on the Bletchley pulp cooking line, sunshine yarn, dyeing yarn, winding thread fruit, cloth line, framing, combing, around the wheel, the cloth warp - shuttle placement of the weft, with the pendulum to hit the real.

After the fabric is woven, some can be cut directly into various types of clothing and other supplies, some need to be further dyed and painted into a variety of colors and varieties, rich in decorative patterned cloth.

Buyei cloth is dyed and painted with various kinds of printing and dyeing, such as indigo dyeing, batik, tie-dyeing, maple dyeing and so on.

The animals and plants, mountains and rivers, grasses and flowers on these brocade surfaces are interwoven together with the meaning and graphics, which tell the Buyei people's love and longing for life, and the hardship of their ancestors' entrepreneurship.

Buyi brocade weaving runs through the life of the Buyei people, while Buyei Toubou runs through the history of the Buyei people. The textile industry has a long history of inheritance among the Buyi. According to folklore, the ancient Buyi people began to pick wild cotton, kapok and kudzu hemp to weave cloth, and only later did they learn to grow cotton. To the Song and Yuan period, the Buyi cloth has become a tribute to the court, known as the "spot cloth". Qing Qianlong "Guizhou Tongzhi" called "Tiedi cloth".

On May 29, 2007, the Buyei cloth production process was announced as the second batch of intangible cultural heritage list of Guizhou Province. 2009 September 30, Buyei brocade was announced as the third batch of intangible cultural heritage list of Guizhou Province.

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