Brief introduction of carpet

Carpet is a famous traditional handicraft in China. China carpet has a history of more than 2,000 years, and is famous for its handmade carpets. Written records can be traced back to more than 3000 years ago. Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a famous sentence in his poem "The Red Line Carpet", which can be tested by real objects and more than two thousand years. According to documents, from the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were more and more kinds of carpets. Carpets are usually made of cotton, wool, hemp and paper rope. Woven carpets made in China take high-strength veil strands as warp yarns and ground weft yarns, and the colored coarse weft yarns are inserted into the warp yarns according to patterns to form plush, and then are woven through shearing, brush pile and other technological processes. Its front is densely covered with towering plush, with solid texture and good elasticity. Especially the carpets produced in Hotan area of Xinjiang are more valuable and have the reputation of "oriental carpets". The carpets produced there are not only of good quality, but also of large output. A 1250 kg carpet woven by Xinjiang Hall of the Great Hall of the People is known as the "king of carpets". 1966, a cotton blanket was unearthed in Lanxi, Zhejiang. It is 2.5 1 m long and 1. 1.8 m wide. It is plain, both sides are convex, flat and thick. After identification, the material used is grass cotton fiber. This kind of cotton carpet was woven in the Southern Song Dynasty. This is the earliest known cotton blanket. It can be seen that the carpet weaving technology at that time has reached a very high level. At present, the new carpet ironing technology has been gradually popularized in Xinjiang carpets, which has improved the quality of carpets. They developed 540 carpets and 720 carpets with exquisite workmanship and high artistic value. It began in the pastoral areas of the northwest plateau. In order to meet the needs of nomadic life, local ethnic minorities make use of the local rich wool twisted yarn to weave colorful kneeling mats, tapestries and carpets. Thanks to the joint creation of Uighurs, Mongolians and Tibetans, as well as the mutual communication with countries in the Middle East through the Silk Road, excellent carpet rug of ancient china art has gradually formed.