Poems about Blue Printed Fabric

1. About Blue Printed Fabric

Blue printed fabric is the traditional hollow plate white paste anti-dyeing printing, commonly known as "medicine spot cloth", which has a history of 1,300 years. Its printing and dyeing methods are all hand-operated, it is the openwork plate spread on the white cloth, with a scraping board to scrape the anti-dyeing paste into the pattern gap leakage printed on the cloth, after drying, dip-dyed indigo for several times, after drying, scrape off the anti-dyeing paste powder, that is, to show the blue and white pattern.

Blue printed cloth originated in the Qin and Han dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, "Book Integration" volume recorded: "medicine spot cloth - to cloth smear gray medicine and dyeing green, wait for dry, go to the gray medicine, then green and white, with characters, birds, poems in various colors, to fill the coverlet mantle use." Ming and Qing dynasties, medicine spot cloth has been widely popular among the people, so the "ancient and modern book integration" property test said: "medicine spot cloth commonly known as watering flower cloth, now where all have." "Guangxu Tongzhou Zhi" records: "planting blue into the border, May mowed said the first blue, July mowed said two blue, glazed tile a pool of water, draw water into the lime, stir a thousand times, bailing water, that is, into the indigo, used to dye the cloth, said the small cylinder green."

Medicine spot cloth and watering cloth is what we often call blue prints. This blue printed cloth has a blue ground white flowers and white ground blue flowers in two forms. The blue white flower cloth only need to use a flower plate printing, constitute the pattern of spots are not connected to each other, for example: plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum. The production method of the white blue fabric, commonly used two flower plate overprinting, printing the first time called "flower plate", printing the second time called "cover plate". The role of the cover plate is to cover up the connection point of the flower plate and the place where the white space needs to be left, so as to set off the blue pattern more clearly. Another method of printing blue flowers on white ground is to a separate printing plate lined with mesh, the pattern of the plate does not need to be connected everywhere, carved with glue and lacquer will be glued to the plate on a large area of the mesh backing, and then scrape the printing paste. Some of the blue printed fabric or double-sided, it is necessary to scrape the paste on the front side of the dry, the use of copy tables on the reverse side of the front of the pattern aligned with the scraping of the paste again, so that after dyeing can be obtained on both sides of the blue printed fabric.

Nantong, Jiangsu is located in the beautiful and fertile alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta, east of the Yellow Sea, south of the Yangtze River, the climate is warm and pleasant, mountains and water, rich people, known as "Chongchuan Fudian" said. Nantong has always been a place of humanities, Wu-Yue culture, Jing-Chu culture, Qilu culture in this convergence, forming a unique regional cultural flavor of the Jianghai Plain. In more than a thousand years of history, the people of Nantong have created and developed colorful and famous folk crafts. Such as tie-dyeing, colorful brocade embroidery, whistling kites (board harriers), woodblock printing and painting, craft gourds and so on. Nantong blue printed cloth is one of the most representative folk crafts.

Nantong folk blue prints began in the Ming Dynasty, and has been passed down to the present day. After generations of folk artists, especially the unremitting efforts of contemporary folk craftsmen, from a single cloth products to a variety of fabric products, from the life of practical to practical, decorative types, from the field to the city to the urban metropolis, to reach its unprecedented splendor.

Simple, original blue and white colors, creating a simple and natural, ever-changing, colorful blue and white art world.

2. The concept of blue printed fabric

Blue printed fabric originated in the Qin and Han dynasties, and flourished in the commercially developed Tang and Song dynasties, as recorded in the volume of "Ancient and Modern Books Integration", "The drug-spotted cloth - to wipe the cloth with gray medicine and dyeing green, wait for drying, and then go to the gray medicine, then the green and white, with figures, birds, flowers, poems in various colors, and coverlet mantle The use of the coverlet."

At the time of the budding capitalism of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the drug-spotted cloth has been widely popular among the people, so the "Ancient and Modern Book Integration" Property Examination, said: "The drug-spotted cloth is commonly known as pouring flower cloth, where all have it now."

The modern style of blue printed cloth, most of the works of the Ming and Qing dynasties. These blue printed cloth made of mosquito nets, quilts, baggage, head scarves, curtains and other household items, simple and generous, fresh and bright colors, simple and beautiful patterns, was very popular. Therefore, the dyeing industry once became a local industry. It is said that Tongxiang blue printed cloth was extremely prosperous at the time of Song and Yuan dynasties, forming a spectacular scene of looms everywhere, dyeing houses even on the street, and cloth boats weaving on the river, among which, the dyeing houses such as "Fung Tong Yu", "Tyson" and so on in Shimen (known as Yuxi in ancient times) became the leading ones in the industry for a while. The system "Ruihe Mingxiang", "Three Friends", "Mei Kaiwu Fu", "Durian Kaihazi" and other prestigious.

3. What are the meanings of blue printed fabric

Simple, original blue and white colors, to create a simple and natural, ever-changing, colorful blue and white art world.

The patterns of blue calico come from the folk, reflecting the people's pleasure, and entrusting their aspirations for a happy life and simple aesthetic interests, in terms of subject matter and content, the people's healthy and simple mind, the perfect unity of form and content in the folk blue calico, and thus the blue calico does truly reflect a deep cultural and artistic deposits. The pattern of blue printed cloth is taken from the people's favorite folk stories and drama characters, but more by the combination of plants and animals, flowers and birds into an auspicious pattern, the use of metaphors, harmonies, analogies and other techniques to express the folk people look forward to a better future ideals and beliefs, so in the folk tradition, blue printed cloth occupies a considerable position.

In the past, when a daughter got married, she had to bring her mother a meal sheet made of indigo cloth, which was a custom to show that a daughter married into a man's family "to be able to get to the hall, to be able to get down to the kitchen," the ability to manage the household. When the girl got married, there must be one or two blue calico quilts in the box, most of them are dragons and phoenixes, phoenixes and peonies pattern "dragon and phoenix quilts", called the "pressure box cloth".

It can be seen that at that time, blue calico was essential to the life of the people. Blue and white world, very beautiful! Jiangsu and Zhejiang around the main production of blue printed fabric in the Nantong area of Jiangsu Province.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Nantong, Jiangsu Province, is China's cotton textile base, the printed blue calico "clothing the world", Nantong blue calico printing and dyeing techniques continue to this day to hand-spun, hand-woven, hand-dyed method of production of daily necessities, dyeing and printing patterns to plants and flowers and animal prints, but also simple geometric shapes. It is very popular with the general public for its dirt-resistant and wear-resistant, sturdy and durable, and auspicious patterns, etc. It is famous for its harmonious blue and white beauty, which is full of rich local flavor, nature and freshness.

Nantong is the focus of research, development and production of folk blue prints, known as the hometown of Chinese blue prints. Blue printed cloth originated from the Qin and Han dynasties, and flourished in the commercially developed Tang and Song dynasties. It is recorded in the volume of "Ancient and Modern Book Integration": "Medicine Spot Cloth - elegant and simple to wipe the gray medicine with cloth.

Dyeing green, wait for drying, go to the gray medicine, then green and white, with figures, flowers, birds, poems in various colors, to fill the coverlet of the use of the mantle." In the budding of capitalism in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the medicine spot cloth has been widely popular in the folk, so the "Ancient and Modern Book Integration" Property Examination said: "medicine spot cloth commonly known as watering flower cloth, where all have it now."

"Guangxu Tongzhou Zhi" records: "planting blue into the border, May mowed said the first blue, July mowed said two blue, glazed tile a pool of water, draw water immersed in lime, stirring thousands of times, bailing water, that is, into indigo, used to dye cloth, said the small cylinder green." The style of blue printed cloth seen in modern times, most of the works of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

These mosquito nets, quilt tops, wraps, turbans, curtains and other household items made of blue printed fabric, simple and generous, fresh and bright colors, simple and beautiful patterns, was very popular. Therefore, the dyeing industry once became the local industry.

History of Song and Yuan Tongxiang blue printed cloth is extremely prosperous, formed: looms everywhere, dyeing even street, the river boat as weaving a spectacular scene, in which the Shimen (ancient name of Yuxi), "Feng Tongyu", "Tyson" and other dyeing store became the industry's leader. Among them, Shimen (ancient name of Yuxi) "Feng Tongyu", "Tyson" and other dyeing shops became the leaders of the industry. The production of "Ruihe Mingxiang", "three friends", "plum bloom five rich", "durian bloom hundred children" and other prestigious.

Blue printed fabric can be generally divided into two forms of blue and white flowers and white blue flowers. The blue and white fabric is printed with only one flower plate, and the spots that make up the pattern are not connected to each other, for example: plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum.

The method of production of white blue fabric, commonly used two pieces of flower plate printing, printing the first time called "flower plate", printing the second time called "cover plate". The role of the cover plate is to cover up the connection point of the plate and the need to leave the white space, more clearly set off the blue floral prints.

Another method of printing blue flowers on white, is a separate printing plate lined with mesh, the pattern does not need to be connected everywhere, carved with glue and paint will be glued to the plate in a large area of mesh backing, and then scrape the printing paste. Some blue prints are still double-sided, which requires scraping the paste on the front side after drying, the use of copy tables on the reverse side to align the front pattern and then scrape the paste once more, so that after dyeing you can get double-sided blue prints.

Blue printed fabric is an ancient hand-printed fabric that was widely popular in the folk of Jiangnan. Her simple and elegant cultural flavor, unique in China's folk art, a thousand years under the fragrance of the charm of the Oriental culture.

4. Detailed information about blue printed fabric

I. Introduction to the process Blue printed fabric, is a traditional hollow version of the white pulp anti-dyeing printing, also known as indigo cloth, commonly known as "medicine spot cloth", "pouring flower cloth", has a history of 1,300 years.

Initially, it was printed and dyed with blue grass as the dye. Blue printed cloth with lime, soybean flour synthesized mortar baked blue, using cotton, hand-worked textile, engraved plate, scraping pulp and other multi-channel printing and dyeing process made.

Second, the process operation Specific operation: from the polygonum grass to extract blue as a dye (indigo), the skeleton plate spread on the white cloth, scrape the pulp board to anti-dyeing slurry scraped into the pattern gap leakage printed on the cloth, dry into the dyeing tank, the cloth under the tank for 20 minutes after taking out the oxidation, ventilation for 30 minutes, generally after 6 to 8 times repeated dyeing to achieve the desired color. Then take it out to oxidize in the air, dry it and scrape off the anti-dyeing paste powder, that is, it shows the blue and white pattern.

Because it is all hand printing and dyeing, drying the pulp will inevitably have cracks, forming a handmade blue printed fabric unique charm ---- ice cracks, while the current machine printed fabric or blue printed fabric without the use of traditional techniques is blue and white, no traces of handmade, and therefore the protection of traditional skills is imminent! Blue printed cloth patterns auspicious and festive, for the last three hundred years the common people are happy to see. Third, the process of classification of blue prints can be generally divided into two forms of blue and white flowers and white blue flowers.

The blue and white fabrics only need to use a flower plate printing, constitute the pattern of spots are not connected to each other, such as: plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum. The method of production of blue cloth on white ground, commonly used two flower plate overprinting, printing the first time called "flower plate", printing the second time called "cover plate".

The role of the cover plate is to cover up the connection point of the plate and the need to leave white space, more clearly set off the blue pattern. Another method of printing blue flowers on a white ground, is a separate printing plate lined with mesh, the pattern of the plate does not need to be connected everywhere, carved with glue and lacquer will be glued to the plate on a large area of the mesh backing, and then scrape the printing paste.

Some of the blue printed fabric is still double-sided, it is necessary to scrape the paste on the front side of the dry, the use of copy tables on the reverse side of the front of the pattern aligned with the scraping of the paste again, so that after dyeing can be obtained after the double-sided blue printed fabric. Blue printed fabric is an ancient hand-printed fabric that was widely popular in the folk of Jiangnan.

Her simple and elegant cultural flavor, in China's folk art is unique, thousands of years under the fragrance of the charm of the Oriental culture. [Edit Paragraph] Fourth, the historical evolution of blue printed fabric from the Qin and Han dynasties, flourished in the commercially developed Tang and Song dynasties, "Ancient and Modern Book Integration" volume records: "medicine spot cloth - to cloth smear gray medicine and dyeing green, wait for dry, go to the gray medicine, then the green and white, there are figures, birds, poems in various colors, coverlet mantle. "

In the budding of capitalism in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the drug spot cloth has been widely popular in the folk, so the "Ancient and Modern Book Integration" Property Examination said: "drug spot cloth commonly known as watering the flower cloth, where all have it now."

The modern style of blue printed cloth, most of the works of the Ming and Qing dynasties. These blue printed cloth made of mosquito nets, quilts, baggage, head scarves, curtains and other household items, simple and generous, fresh and bright colors, simple and beautiful patterns, was very popular.

Therefore, the dyeing industry once became the local industry. History of Song and Yuan Tongxiang blue printed cloth is extremely prosperous, formed: looms everywhere, dyeing workshop even street, the river boat weaving the spectacular scene, which, Shimen (ancient name of Yuxi), "Feng Tongyu", "Tyson" and other dyeing store has become the industry leader.

The production of "Ruihe Mingxiang", "Three Friends of the Year", "Plum Blossom Five Fortune", "Durian Blossom Hundred Sons" and so on. The "Ruihe Mingxiang", "Year Cold Three Friends", "Plum Blossom Five Fortune", "Pomegranate Blossom Hundred Sons", and so on, have long been famous. [Edit Paragraph] V. Contents of the theme Simple, primitive blue and white colors, to create a simple and natural, ever-changing, colorful blue and white art world.

The pattern of blue prints are from the folk, reflecting the people's pleasure, and support their aspirations for a happy life and simple aesthetic interests, in the subject matter and content, the people's kind of health and simplicity of the heart, in the folk blue prints on the perfect unity of form and content, and thus the blue prints do truly reflect a deep cultural and artistic deposits. The pattern of blue printed cloth is taken from the people's favorite folk stories and drama characters, but more by the combination of plants and animals, flowers and birds into an auspicious pattern, the use of metaphors, harmonies, analogies and other techniques to express the folk people look forward to a better future ideals and beliefs, so in the folk tradition, blue printed cloth occupies a considerable position.

In the past, when a daughter got married, she had to bring her mother a meal sheet made of indigo cloth, which was a custom to show that a daughter married into a man's family "to be able to get to the hall, to be able to get down to the kitchen," the ability to manage the household. When the girl got married, there must be one or two blue calico quilts in the box, most of them are dragons and phoenixes, phoenixes and peonies pattern "dragon and phoenix quilts", called the "pressure box cloth".

It can be seen at the time of the blue calico is essential to the life of the people. [Edit paragraph] Six, the origin of the legend of blue printed cloth is a long history of traditional hand-dyed products.

Legend has it that a young man surnamed Mei accidentally fell, fell in the mud, the clothes turned yellow, how to wash can not be washed off, but people see but like, then he told him a good friend surnamed Ge. Later, they both specialized in dyeing cloth into yellow, and a very fortuitous opportunity, they hung the cloth on the branches of the tree drying accidentally blown to the ground by the wind, the ground happens to have a pile of polygonum blue grass, which is now known as the bluegrass, which has an ingredient called indigo, which can be dyed blue, and so on, when they found this piece of cloth, the yellow cloth has become a piece of floral cloth, and the yellow cloth has become a piece of floral cloth. "Green a piece, blue a piece" they think the mystery must be in this grass, since then, the two and after many studies, finally dyed the cloth into a blue cloth, Mr. Meige two also became the grandmaster of the blue prints.

[Edit paragraph] seven, Nantong blue printed cloth Nantong, Jiangsu is located in the beautiful and fertile alluvial plain of the Yangtze River delta, east of the Yellow Sea, south of the Yangtze River, the climate is warm and pleasant, beautiful mountains and beautiful water, rich in material and people, known as "Chongchuan blessed land" of the name. Nantong has always been a place of humanities, Wu-Yue culture, Jing-Chu culture, Qilu culture in this convergence, the formation of the Jianghai Plain unique regional cultural flavors.

In more than a thousand years of history, the people of Nantong have created and developed Feng.

In more than a thousand years of history, the people of Nantong have created and developed Feng. 5. About the old artists of blue printed cloth

Question by: liufei006 - Trial period Level 1 Best Answer Blue printed cloth is the traditional hollow version of white pulp dyeing and printing, commonly known as the "medicine spot cloth", which has a history of 1,300 years from now.

Its printing and dyeing methods are all hand-operated, is the skeletonized plate spread on the white cloth, with a scraping board to anti-dyeing paste agent scraped into the pattern gap leakage printed on the cloth, after drying and dyed with indigo a few times, after drying and scraped anti-dyeing paste powder, that is, the blue and white pattern appears. Blue printed cloth originated in the Qin and Han dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, "Book Integration" volume recorded: "medicine spot cloth - to cloth smear gray medicine and dyeing green, wait for dry, go to the gray medicine, then green and white, there are characters, birds and flowers, poems in various colors, to fill the coverlet mantle with."

The Ming and Qing dynasties, the medicine spot cloth has been widely popular among the people, so the "Ancient and Modern Book Integration" Property Examination said: "medicine spot cloth commonly known as pouring flower cloth, where all have it now." "Guangxu Tongzhou Zhi" records: "planting blue into the border, May mowed said the first blue, July mowed said two blue, glazed tile a pool of water, draw water into the lime, stir a thousand times, bailing water, that is, into the indigo, used to dye the cloth, said the small cylinder green."

Medicine spot cloth and watering cloth is what we often call blue prints. This blue printed cloth has a blue ground white flowers and white ground blue flowers in two forms.

The blue ground white flower cloth only need to use a piece of flower plate printing, constitute the pattern of spots are not connected to each other, for example: plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum. The method of production of blue cloth on white ground, commonly used two flower plate overprinting, printing the first time called "flower plate", printing the second time called "cover plate".

The role of the cover plate is to cover up the connection point of the plate and the need to leave white space, more clearly set off the blue pattern. Another method of printing blue flowers on white, is a separate printing plate lined with mesh, the pattern of the plate does not need to be connected everywhere, carved with glue and lacquer will be glued to the plate on a large area of the mesh backing, and then scrape the printing paste.

Some of the blue printed fabric is still double-sided, it is necessary to scrape the paste on the front side of the dry, the use of copy tables on the reverse side of the front of the texture aligned to scrape the paste again, so that after dyeing can be obtained after the double-sided blue printed fabric. Nantong, Jiangsu Province is located in the beautiful and fertile alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta, east of the Yellow Sea, south of the Yangtze River, the climate is warm and pleasant, mountains and water, rich in material and people, known as "Chongchuan Fudian" said.

Nantong has always been a place of humanities, Wu-Yue culture, Jing-Chu culture, Qilu culture in this convergence, the formation of the Jianghai Plain unique regional cultural flavor. In more than a thousand years of history, the people of Nantong have created and developed a rich and colorful, famous folk crafts in all directions.

Such as tie-dye, colorful brocade embroidery, whistle kites (board harriers), woodblock printing and painting, craft gourds and so on. Nantong blue printed cloth is one of the most representative folk crafts.

Nantong folk blue prints began in the Ming Dynasty, and has been passed down to the present day. After generations of folk artists, especially the unremitting efforts of contemporary folk craftsmen, from a single cloth products to a variety of fabric products, from the life of practical to practical, decorative types, from the field to the city to the urban metropolis, to reach its unprecedented splendor.

Simple, original blue and white colors, creating a simple and natural, ever-changing, colorful blue and white art world.

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6. About the blue printed fabric friends, who knows the details of the blue printed fabric

The blue printed fabric is an ancient hand-printed fabric that was widely popular in the folk of Jiangnan.

Her simple and elegant cultural flavor, in China's folk art is unique, thousands of years under the fragrance of the charm of the Oriental culture. Blue printed cloth is extracted from polygonum grass blue as a dye, with lime, soybean flour synthesized mortar baked blue, using cotton, handmade textile, carving board, scraping pulp and other multi-channel printing and dyeing process carefully made.

Blue and white phase, blue strong, white pure, flower outline smooth and uniform, simple and eye-catching lines, patterns auspicious and festive, for the recent three hundred years of the common people are happy to see. Blue printed cloth originated in the Qin and Han dynasties, the prevalence of commercially developed in the Song Dynasty, and widely popularized in the budding capitalism of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the style of blue printed cloth seen in modern times, most of the Ming and Qing generations of works.

These blue printed cloth made of mosquito nets, quilt tops, wraps, head scarves, curtains and other household items, simple and generous, fresh and bright colors, simple and beautiful patterns, was very popular. Therefore, the dyeing industry once became the local industry.

History of Song and Yuan Tongxiang blue printed cloth is extremely prosperous, formed: looms everywhere, dyeing even street, the river boat as weaving a spectacular scene, in which the Shimen (ancient name of the Yuxi) "Feng Tongyu", "Tyson" and other dyeing store became the industry's leader. Among them, Shimen (ancient name of Yuxi) "Feng Tongyu", "Tyson" and other dyeing shops became the leaders of the industry. The production of "Ruihe Mingxiang", "three friends", "plum bloom five rich", "durian bloom hundred children" and other prestigious.

Blue printed cloth is the traditional hollow version of white pulp dyeing and printing, commonly known as "medicine spot cloth", has a history of 1,300 years. Its printing and dyeing methods are all hand-operated, is the openwork plate spread on the white cloth, with a scraping board to anti-dyeing paste agent scraped into the pattern gap leakage printed on the cloth, after drying, dipping indigo several times, drying scraping anti-dyeing paste powder, that is, to show the blue and white pattern.

Blue printed cloth originated in the Qin and Han dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, "Book Integration" volume recorded: "medicine spot cloth - to cloth smear gray medicine and dyeing green, wait for dry, go to the gray medicine, then green and white, with figures, birds, poems in various colors, to fill the coverlet mantle with. "The Ming and Qing dynasties, the medicine spot cloth has been widely popular in the folk, so" Ancient and Modern Book Integration "Property Examination said:" medicine spot cloth is commonly known as watering flower cloth, where all have it now."

"Guangxu Tongzhou Zhi" records: "planted blue into the border, May mowed said the first blue, July mowed said two blue, glazed tile a pool of water, draw water immersed in lime, stirring thousands of times, bailing water, that is, into the indigo, used to dye the cloth, said the small cylinder green." Medicine spot cloth and watering cloth is what we often call blue printed cloth.

This blue printed cloth has a blue ground white flowers and white ground blue flowers in two forms. Blue ground white flower cloth only need to use a piece of flower plate printing, constitute the pattern of spots are not connected to each other, for example: plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum.

The method of production of white blue cloth, commonly used two pieces of flower plate printing, printing the first time called "flower plate", printing the second time called "cover plate". The role of the cover plate is to cover up the connection point of the plate and the need to leave white space, more clearly set off the blue pattern.

Another method of printing blue flowers on white, is a separate printing plate lined with a mesh, the pattern of the plate does not need to be connected everywhere, carved with glue and lacquer will be glued to the plate in a large area of the mesh backing, and then scrape the printing paste. Some of the blue printed fabric or double-sided, it is necessary to scrape the paste on the front side of the dry, the use of copy tables on the reverse side of the front of the pattern aligned with the scraping of the paste again, so that after dyeing can be obtained on both sides of the blue printed fabric.

Nantong, Jiangsu is located in the beautiful and fertile alluvial plain of the Yangtze River Delta, east of the Yellow Sea, south of the Yangtze River, the climate is warm and pleasant, mountains and water, rich people, known as "Chongchuan Fudian" said. Nantong has always been a place of humanities, Wu-Yue culture, Jing-Chu culture, Qilu culture in this convergence, the formation of the Jianghai Plain unique regional cultural flavors.

In more than a thousand years of history, the people of Nantong have created and developed colorful and famous folk crafts. Such as tie-dye, colorful brocade embroidery, whistle kites (board harriers), woodblock prints, craft gourds and so on.

Nantong blue printed fabric is one of the most representative folk crafts. Nantong folk blue printed cloth began in the Ming Dynasty, and has been handed down to the present day.

After generations of folk artists, especially the unremitting efforts of contemporary folk craftsmen, from a single cloth products to a variety of fabric products, from the life of the practical type to practical, decorative types, from the fields to the city of the metropolis, to reach its unprecedented glory. Simple, original blue and white colors, creating a simple and natural, ever-changing, colorful blue and white art world.

7. History of Dyeing Fabric in Wuzhen

I. Historical Evolution

Blue printed fabric originated in the Qin and Han Dynasties, and flourished in the commercially developed Tang and Song Dynasties, and it is recorded in the volume of "Ancient and Modern Books Integration", "The Medicine Spot Fabric - to wipe the cloth with gray medicine and elegant and simple dyeing of the blue, wait for drying, and then go to the gray medicine, then green and white. The cloth is made of various colors, such as figures, birds and flowers, and poems, and is used for coverlet."

At the time of the budding capitalism of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the drug spot cloth has been widely popular in the folk, so the "Ancient and Modern Book Integration" Property Examination, said: "The drug spot cloth is commonly known as watering flower cloth, now where all have it."

The modern style of blue printed cloth, most of the works of the Ming and Qing dynasties. These blue printed cloth made of mosquito nets, quilts, baggage, head scarves, curtains and other household items, simple and generous, fresh and bright colors, simple and beautiful patterns, was very popular. Therefore, the dyeing industry once became the local industry.

History of Song and Yuan Tongxiang blue printed cloth is extremely prosperous, formed: looms everywhere, dyeing even street, the river boat as weaving a spectacular scene, in which the Shimen (ancient name of the Yuxi) "Feng Tongyu", "Tyson" and other dyeing store became the industry's leader. Among them, Shimen (ancient name of Yuxi) "Feng Tongyu", "Tyson" and other dyeing shops became the leaders of the industry. Produced by the "Ruihe Mingxiang", "three friends", "plum bloom five rich", "durian bloom hundred children" and other prestigious.

Second, process introduction

Blue printed cloth, is a traditional hollow version of the white pulp anti-dyeing printing, also known as indigo cloth, commonly known as "medicine spot cloth", "pouring flower cloth", has a history of 1,300 years. Initially, it was printed and dyed with blue grass as the dye. Blue printed cloth with lime, soybean meal synthetic mortar baked blue, using cotton, handmade textile, engraved plate, scraping pulp and other multi-channel printing and dyeing process made.

Third, the process operation

Specific operation: from polygonum blue grass to extract blue as dye (indigo), the hollowed out plate spread on white cloth, scraping the pulp board to anti-dyeing slurry scraped into the pattern gap leakage printed on the cloth, after drying into the dyeing vat, the cloth down the vat for 20 minutes after taking out the oxidation, ventilation for 30 minutes, generally after 6 to 8 repeated dyeing to achieve the desired color.

And then take it out in the air oxidation, dry and scrape off the anti-dyeing paste powder, that is, showing blue and white pattern. Because it is all hand printed and dyed, the dried paste will inevitably have cracks, forming the unique charm of handmade blue printed fabric - ice cracks.

Nowadays, machine printed fabrics or blue printed fabrics that do not use traditional techniques are clear blue and white, with no traces of handmade, so the protection of traditional techniques is imminent!

Fourth, the process of classification

Blue printed fabric can be generally divided into two forms of blue and white flowers and white blue flowers. The blue and white cloth only need to use a piece of flower plate printing, constitute the pattern of spots are not connected to each other, for example: plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum. The production method of the blue cloth on white, commonly used two flower plate printing, printing the first time called "flower plate", printing the second time called "cover plate".

The role of the cover plate is to cover up the connection point of the plate and the need to leave the white space, more clearly set off the blue floral prints. Another method of printing blue flowers on white, is a separate printing plate lined with mesh, the pattern of the plate without every connection, carved with glue and lacquer will be glued to the plate in a large area of the mesh backing, and then scrape the printing paste.

Some blue prints are still double-sided, which requires scraping the paste on the front side after drying, the use of copy tables on the reverse side of the front pattern aligned with the scraping of the paste again, so that after dyeing can be obtained on both sides of the blue prints.

Blue printed fabric is an ancient hand-printed fabric that was widely popular in the folk of Jiangnan. Her simple and elegant cultural flavor, in China's folk art is unique, thousands of years under the fragrance of the charm of the Oriental culture.

Extended information

Blue printed cloth, also known as indigo flower cloth, commonly known as medicine spot cloth, pouring flower cloth. It is a traditional Han craft printing and dyeing products, hollow version of the white pulp anti-dyeing printing, has a history of 1,300 years.

Although the pace of science and technology has been moving faster and faster, but there are still many people are very fond of the traditional patterns and patterns of clothing, so let's savor the "blue prints" of this fashion classic through time!

The earliest blue prints were dyed with the juice of bluegrass, and with the growing popularity, now they are made with lime powder, soybean ash powder and other raw materials into a mortar baked blue, and then use handmade, cotton and other crafts of meticulous printing and dyeing.

There is a legend about blue prints:

According to legend, once upon a time, a young man accidentally fell on a heel, the clothes dyed yellow, he suffered from the inability to wash it off, but other people think it is very beautiful.

This was known to a good friend of his, and the two engaged in the business of dyeing fabrics yellow.

One day, however, the cloth they were drying on a tree was blown to the ground by the wind, and it just so happened that a pair of polygonum grasses grew in that field, which dyed the cloth a gorgeous blue color, and by the time they found the piece of cloth, the pattern on the piece of cloth had already become a "blue piece, a piece of green", and they were able to track down the indigo flowers. They also traced the mystery of the indigo cloth, and became the "grandfather" of the indigo cloth.

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8. Crafts of Blue Print Fabric

The history of the Chinese use of cotton fibers for weaving can be traced back to the beginning of the A.D. By the end of the thirteenth century, the handmade cotton spinning technology had been widely disseminated in the Suwanwannese, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and the blue print fabric technology was also commonly used.

In the old days, every family in the rural areas of Zhejiang and Jiangsu would weave and dye cloth. The clothes worn by the old generation, the daily baggage skin, and even the dowry of their daughters, were all home textile printing and dyeing of blue printed cloth. Curtains, headscarves, aprons, wraps, tents, etc. can all be made from it. Blue printed cloth seems to be the special fabric of the working people. Its pattern is full of rich local flavor, natural and fresh. The main production area of blue printed cloth in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is Nantong.

In the Nantong area, since ancient times, simple people, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, due to the Nantong climate and geography at that time was very special, warm and humid, especially suitable for the growth of cotton and "bluegrass" and "bluegrass" and cotton planting in the local countryside is very common, coupled with the local folk culture, and the local people's culture, and the local people's culture. Very common, coupled with the local folk textile technology is very developed, every family has a wooden spinning wheel and loom. It is true that 'every family can hear the sound of weaving, and every household has a weaver.' Therefore, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Nantong dyeing and weaving blue prints of the workshop has developed into a large-scale market, according to the Ming Dynasty, "Nantong County" records, in the "Dyeing and Weaving Bureau," registered in the hand-dyeing workshop there are as many as nineteen.

Blue printed cloth originated in the Qin and Han dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, known as the ancient medicine spot cloth. The Ancient and Modern Book Integration volume recorded: "medicine spot cloth - to cloth smear gray medicine and dyeing green, wait for dry, go to the gray medicine, then the green and white, there are figures, flowers and birds, poems in various colors, coverlet mantle with." During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the medicine spot cloth has been popular among the people, so the people also called it pouring cloth, on the basis of which it has been developed to the present day. The most typical blue printed cloth is the pattern of white flowers on a blue background and blue flowers on a white background. This traditional technique of intersecting blue and white backgrounds has a complicated production process.