Straw weaving crafts become a new way for rural people to get rich, straw weaving technology is difficult to learn?

Straw weaving technology is difficult to learn, but insist on success.

In the process, through the use of weaving, winding buckle, nail string and other techniques, woven into colorful patterns and shapes. Although wheat straw, corn husk, bamboo gabions, wicker and other raw materials of a single color, but due to the diversity of the weaving process, the use of dense and sparse contrast, warp and weft intersection, interspersed with the masking pressure, thick and thin contrast and other techniques, so that it is in the woven plane to form a concave-convex, undulating, hidden, real and virtual relief-like artistic effect, adding color levels, but also shows the exquisite handmade craftsmanship.

The straw hat is popular in Cangzhou and Hengshui near Shandong Province. It goes through the processes of selecting materials, compacting, fumigating, bedding and packaging. "In your craftsmanship coquettish, as I have found" "good flat son quite grinding rough"", says a lot of material. Sprouts are selected after the wheat is harvested and before it is exposed to sunlight (grass sprouts are brittle, break easily and are not tough). Sprouts and sprouts formed by rain or rust are removed during selection. Sprouting buds can be braided after selection. It is called fixed braid or angled braid. The trick is to "rotate, compress and cross", whether four (root), five or six strands.

The key, therefore, is also the proficiency of the editor. No venue, no tools, no sitting and talking, not even a boat ride. After the straw hat is braided, it is pulled a little tighter to make it properly tight, and sometimes a mallet is used to straighten and braid it.

The province's famous straw hat is Xingji Bai, produced in Xingji Town (now Cangxian County). Before the founding of the People's Republic of China*** and the People's Republic of China, there was a Mrs. Chen's Wan Yide store that specialized in the straw hat business. Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China, straw hat manufacturing products have been exported to dozens of countries and regions such as the United States, Britain, France, Italy and Japan. Broom weaving is more common in the province, especially in the affluent Gaoliang Dawa area is more prosperous. The raw materials for manufacturing brooms are mainly threshed sorghum cob cores (also known as sorghum chaff) and millet cob cores. Traditional sorghum varieties, such as red cap red, black cap red, black cap white, big three mom, yellow Luo umbrella (sticky sorghum), etc., stem long ears, shoots soft and flexible, broom good durable. To make a high-quality broom, the first thing to do is to pinch the straw selection, that is, after the annual White Dew Festival, select the thick stems, spikes, the field without insects of the mature Koch, and with a thick sickle will be 30-50 centimeters long sorghum spikes of the stems cut off.

Fields are single-sunned, and threshing is done after 89 percent drying and manual thrashing or winnowing. After the sorghum is threshed, it is then broken and selected by deboning, and then the brooms are cut off individually as required, commonly known as flattening, and the bundles are placed on racks to dry for use. The last process before bundling is to break the iron core for coloring, cut the pipe core one by one into two halves (except for cooking duster), crush it into chaff with a stone roller or sledgehammer, and then choose another part of the better chaff, and then use the color brush to brush the red and green colors as the decoration on the back of the broom. When making brooms, first soak the core in water to make it soft and unbreakable, and then tie up the stool (a special hollow wooden stool), according to the type of broom to leave different handles Folk commonly used varieties of broom broom, ground broom, rice broom and long-handled broom a few models.