Which region is characterized by its bamboo weaving

Which region is characterized by its bamboo weaving: Dongyang City, Zhejiang Province

Bamboo weaving is introduced:

Bamboo weaving is a handicraft that uses the mountainous moso bamboo to split into slices or filaments and weave them into a variety of utensils and crafts. Bamboo weaving industry historically in the form of workshops, more than one generation or workshop-based master-apprentice relationship, apprenticeship, after completion of the apprenticeship, self-employed, and then recruited apprenticeship, oral teaching. Generally do household goods, agricultural appliances. Meishan bamboo weaving has a long history and is one of the first national intangible cultural heritages.

Main species

Species of folk crafts throughout the southern provinces. Bamboo species in the southern region of China is rich and colorful, there are light bamboo, water bamboo, ci bamboo, just bamboo, moso bamboo and so on about two hundred kinds of species. Working people with bamboo furniture, preparation of supplies, creating a variety of weaving process with different artistic characteristics.

Weaving process

Bamboo weaving process is mainly divided into material processing, weaving and finishing three stages, material processing is the bamboo processing into a hedge (mie), weaving is a variety of products with scorn, finishing is indispensable auxiliary complementary processes, the purpose is to make the bamboo products are more beautiful, delicate, smooth, durable. Among the various bamboo products, the back of the most complex process.

1, material processing

It is the bamboo a handful of (each 200) stand in the yard sun exposure, and then stored. With sun-dried for forest rain, then sunstorming, take a first scrape off the bamboo joints, bamboo hair, and then cut in half, and then in the river or mill canal soak, soak for two days and two nights.

To be softened after the bamboo fish out, then the flexibility of the bamboo has been greatly improved, suitable for processing, and then dissected with a knife with a scorn into a proportional thin strip, and then scrape the light, can be used for weaving.

Secondly, weaving. First of all, the two thick and thin, equal length of the stick curved, the middle of the stick cross stacked, through the square circle tied with wire, the four stick head placed to the corners of the circle, made of back stick also known as the back of the corner of the Tsukiji). Then braid from bottom to top.

2, weaving

To use the tendon (wider bamboo strips) disk base, and then use ~ son (thin bamboo strips) weaving. Braided to two inches at the head and neck, five inches at the second neck, one foot at the third neck. Then lock the edge, small back view one foot five inches high lock edge, in the back of the first foot six inches, large back view two feet high lock edge. The edge of the lock on the beginning of the coffin stick, that is, the back of the mouth of the coffin round, the coffin is, so that the back of the shape of the building is beautiful.

And then wrapped around the edge, the young bamboo split in two, the mouth of the edge of the three circles, in essence, the side of the lock to refine the reinforcement process, so that the back of the mouth in the hands of a comfortable, not solid, but also solid and durable, so far the back of the simple even made up. Lock edge, coffin stick, wrapping edge are closing work seat, but also shows the key to weave back counting technical level.

3, closing

that is, in front of the back of the tethered belt to do two back sign, behind the back of the building to do four protection sign, so that the back of the building more strong, durable. Folks have manipulated up the contempt knife to the bamboo canopy. A few times, the bamboo is broken, and the hand is like a book.