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Carve silk craft characteristics

Many friends will like some of the crafts, but some of their knowledge is not very understanding, such as carving silk craft features what? Carved silk craft has three characteristics: 1, time-consuming and long, need a few months or even more than a year. 2, has a high ornamental value, carved silk craft is generally very strong three-dimensional sense. 3, generally by the collective creation, the work itself is very high in craftsmanship and artistic value. Carved silk is actually woof, is a kind of silk fabric in ancient China. Unlike embroidery and brocade, it adopts the weaving method of "through the warp and weft". Characterized by its finished product, the front and back of the two sides as one, like a knife carved into. It was first used in woolen fabrics, called woof, and after Tang Dynasty, it was used in silk fabrics. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it can imitate calligraphy and painting, and is now known as the four major special crafts in China with embroidery, jade carving and ivory carving, cloisonné.