Technological characteristics of brocade stacking

Shangdang Brocade takes silk as the main fabric and toilet paper and cotton as the skeleton. It is made by cutting, "sticking raw edges", "pressing paper and twisting", wadding, hard pleating, soft pleating, rendering, wire drawing, etc. 10. The requirements for making figures' heads, hands, ornaments and props are very fine. Fingers must be filled with cotton and covered with satin headdress.

The main technological feature of Shangdang Brocade is that according to the artist's careful design, colorful silk fabrics are wrapped on the cardboard with "flash" floc and paper rubbing, and hard pleats or soft pleats are set as required, and then exposed parts such as faces and hands of characters and flowers, birds and animals that need to be dyed are stacked and pasted into handmade works of art with relief effect. Or the depiction of flowers, birds and animals, all have a strong three-dimensional sense, especially the statue of Buddha and Bodhisattva, which not only embodies the solemnity and mystery in traditional Buddhist art, but also successfully integrates people's aesthetic taste and combines the beauty of gentleness and grace with the beauty of sublimity and solemnity.

Exquisite craftsmanship, unique levels, unpredictable textures and beautiful and simple tastes have formed a unique visual effect of brocade art. The traditional painting is reinterpreted with silk brocade, special textiles and fabrics, which turns ordinary into magic, giving people a refreshing feeling and adding more cultural color to this traditional craft.