The Introduction of wickerwork and the Making Process of Cultural Value wickerwork

Wicker products, weaving crafts and practical products with wicker as the main raw material. Wickerwork is one of the traditional folk arts and crafts in China. In ancient times, people only regarded it as an ordinary daily public utility, and it didn't rise gradually until the last few decades of the 20th century, and it gradually became an export-oriented foreign exchange earning project in some parts of China. Let's have a look.

First, wicker processing

1. Branch processing

Peel off the skin of the picked wicker and dry it in the sun, making it a round and smooth white branch with ivory color. In order to make wicker weave colorful, white branches can be dyed into colorful branches. The time for picking wicker is generally before the branches germinate in spring stop growing (July 25th to August 5th), or when the branches germinate in spring and autumn (mid-August). If you pick it too early, the branches will not be strong; It's too late for the skin to peel off easily. In addition, you should choose to pick it on a sunny morning and dry it in time after peeling, otherwise it will easily change color or become moldy.

2. Segmentation processing

Use a knife to take off the bark outside the rough wicker and cut it into slender strips, which can be used to weave small handicrafts or wrap the edges and handles of handicrafts.

Step 3: Dealing with pimps

After falling leaves in autumn, pick willow branches with skin and dry them. Colors are grayish green, grass yellow, purple and so on. Woven wicker crafts have a broad and simple style.

Second, the cultural value of wickerwork

Wickerwork is a traditional handicraft activity. Compared with other semi-mechanical or workshop-style handicrafts, wickerwork still follows the traditional way in materials and technology, and the raw materials and final products are still completely processed by manpower. The value of handicrafts lies in the cultural value behind them. In addition to practical functions, wickerwork folk arts and crafts also have a strong local flavor and unique artistic style, recording the local folk life at that time. Take the basket as an example. Basket is a kind of agricultural tool for holding grain. Strong and firm, water does not leak. It is a common wickerwork vessel among the people. The bottom of the basket is hemispherical, shaped like a bucket, also called a shackle. "Castanopsis fissa" is a general term for plants, and its homonym has symbolic meanings such as firmness and harmony. In northern folk customs, the basket has become a prop to express emotions. When a girl gives birth, her family will go to see her on her back. The basket contains dyed red eggs, brown sugar and a handful of bean sprouts (indicating that children take root and sprout). Wickerwork material has its own inherent law of formal beauty, which is irreplaceable by other materials. Different weaving techniques have different weaving textures. Flat weave, twisted weave and woven weave are mainly divided into plain weave, twill weave, diamond weave and patterns changing on these weaves.

Third, the production method of wickerwork

There are five main techniques in wickerwork craft: flat weaving, grain weaving, knitting, masonry weaving and hemming.

1. Plane editing

This is the main work of weaving flat cushion foil. Its characteristic is that the warp and weft are interwoven and interwoven with each other, and you can choose one to press one, two to press two, one to press two and two to press one, thus forming different interwoven patterns. The reed mat foil first presses the reed into a flat piece, and then weaves it, which is also a flat weaving work. Other sorghum bark weaving, bamboo strip weaving and cattail weaving are also mainly flat weaving. On the contrary, the plain weave of wicker weaving is not much.

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Twisting is also a kind of work characterized by warp knitting and weft knitting. The difference between it and flat knitting machine is that in warp knitting, the warp and weft of flat knitting machine are the same, they move at the same time and knit forward; Arrange warp piles first, which can be ropes, strips, bamboo poles or even iron wires, and then cross the warp piles up and down with braided strips (willow, locust and bamboo) to bypass them circularly. After knitting, the surface is completely covered by weft knitting, and the warps are not exposed. Twisting requires weft-knitted sliver to be soft and tough, so it is often used to weave wicker.

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Music weaving is a traditional wicker weaving work. Articles woven by le are generally called "tying goods". This method takes hemp rope as warp and wicker as weft, and the hemp rope alternately passes through wicker once, and is tied tightly around the buckle. Usually, dustpans, baskets, baskets, wicker bags, etc. What is seen by people is woven into the main body in this way. It is often necessary to weave wooden boards, handles or frames on the edge of woven utensils to make the periphery neat and tidy.

The above is wickerwork's knowledge, I hope I can help you.