How did ancient people weave cloth?

The most primitive weaving tool in China is the spinning brick. It is made of stone or ceramic pieces of flat round spinning wheel, there is a short rod in the middle, the use of the inertia of the object rotation, engaged in winding twisted yarn work. From the excavated textiles, it can be inferred that the Spring and Autumn period that there has been a spinning wheel. Qin and Han Dynasty, hand-cranked single-spindle spinning wheel has been widely used.

Song dynasty on the spinning wheel and made a breakthrough improvement, the emergence of hemp spinning wheel and water transport spinning wheel. But the efficiency was still very low. Yuan dynasty Yuanzhen years, exiled Yazhou Huang Daobao returned to his hometown, will she and Li people learned the textile technology, creative improvement of the hometown of the old textile machinery, which is my father Zhenfeng people have been using the textile machinery and technology.

Creating the three-spindle pedal spinning wheel, which can spin three yarns at the same time. The three-spindle spinning wheel was a very remarkable invention at that time. Before the advent of the machine spinning wheel, it was not easy to find someone who could spin two yarns at the same time, and the three-spindle spinning wheel not only improved efficiency, but also increased production, and it was five hundred years earlier than the European "Jenny machine".

Huang Daobao became one of the "great female weavers of ancient China". Her famous "Tachi-Shi-Bow" weaves Li brocade and tube skirts with more than 200 kinds of colorful and elegant patterns, such as chicken-flower patterns, horsetail patterns and frog patterns, which are known as "the loom's exquisite workmanship, and a hundred flowers and a thousand flowers".

Toilet weaving cloth, also known as old rough cloth, hand-woven cloth, is a kind of cotton handmade textiles used for generations, with a strong local flavor and distinctive regional characteristics, occupying a pivotal position in the history of Chinese textiles.

In Zhenfeng, there is a tradition of hand-woven sheets for daughters getting married. Whenever any family has a daughter to get married, the mother's family will be prepared with different colors of hand-woven sheets as a dowry, which not only reflects the care of the mother's family to the daughter, but also is a symbol of the mother's diligence and competence. But with the improvement of living standards, once out of sight of the people's hand-woven cloth and quietly rise, once again favored by the people.

Cotton cloth weaving process is more complex, from the cotton spinning line to the loom, the basic hand operation. Its main processes are ginning, flower, spinning, dyeing, pulp line, warp, for brown, hanging machine, weaving and other large and small processes 27.

Zhenfeng's soil cloth bleaching, there is a unique place to weave a good white cloth flat catch in the grass over easy night, night dew will naturally bleach cloth. This is a great invention of the people of Zhenfeng, white cloth through many times after sucking the night dew, white cloth will become white.

Zhenfeng earth cloth products to wicker, colorful strips, squares, jacquard 4 series as the basis, peasant women can rely on 22 kinds of basic color line weaving dozens of brilliant and colorful patterns, can be said to be ever-changing, ingenious, there are a lot of sub-processes in each process, you can imagine how much a product contains complicated labor, let a person breathtaking. Nowadays, earth weaving fabric has been widely used in bedding, clothing, curtains, wall hangings, tablecloths, cushions and so on. Since the products have been on the market, they have been favored by people for their exquisite hand-woven craftsmanship, healthy natural quality, rich local flavor and distinctive ethnic patterns. In today's rapid development of textile technology, the hand-woven fabric technology has been handed down to the present day, which is a miracle.

Handmade burlap cotton content of 100%, is an all-natural green environmental protection products, the product is comfortable, no stimulation of the skin, anti-static, no pilling, breathable, but also has a unique natural massage characteristics, can increase the human body's microcirculation, regulate the nerves, improve the quality of sleep. In the material standard of living is improving today, the idea of chasing after high-grade, chasing after the trend is gradually replaced by "respect for green, back to nature", the old rough cloth products and its own characteristics to win the favor of consumers.

The old rough cloth is a long-established cotton handmade ecological textile treasures, with distinctive cultural characteristics, has a number of incomparable superiority of woven cloth. Not long ago, its craft was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.