Liu Qi weaving artware

Wickerwork handicrafts are as follows.

Brief introduction of wickerwork

1. wickerwork skill is a unique handicraft skill of the Han nationality in northern Jiangsu, with strong national characteristics and regionality, especially in the northern towns of Suining County. Salix psammophila is a deciduous zonal shrub, which originally grew in the back river depressions or ponds on both sides of the old Yellow River, and then was transplanted to a large area of farmland for reproduction.

2. Since the Han Dynasty, local residents have had the habit of weaving all kinds of household appliances with willows according to local conditions. Especially before the popularization of weighing instruments, the eastern part of the Central Plains of China mainly relied on willow-woven baskets, buckets and baskets as containers for weighing food. For example, a liter basket is 3 kg, a barrel is 30 kg, and a basket is 60 kg.

There are dustpans and round cages open along one side on three sides of wickerwork, which are necessary household appliances. Woven boutique sewing baskets are also the main dowry for parents to marry their daughters. In the middle of last century, the traditional wicker weaving was innovated and developed into a single weaving process. Baskets, flower baskets and other handicrafts were exported to the United States, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and other countries, and the international market was very promising.

4. The traditional wickerwork process mainly includes five steps: first, harvesting, peeling and drying willow; Secondly, soaking or cooking the wicker to soften; The third is to grind the weft with hemp skin; The fourth is to weave according to the model in a room that is kept wet; Fifth, pattern decoration and pruning, such as weaving or printing patterns symbolizing auspiciousness, happiness, peace and harvest in different positions by various manual methods, are very beautiful and generous.

Since all kinds of plastic products hit the market, wickerwork products have gradually lost their practical value. Coupled with the death of old folk artists of traditional crafts, wickerwork, an ancient traditional craft, is on the verge of extinction, and there is no successor.

6. Yutai is rich and fertile, and is known as the "land of fish and rice" in Jiangbei. There are 17 rivers winding in the territory,10.2 million mu of ecological wetland is picturesque, and 30,000 mu of willows are as vast as the blue sea. There are four protected products of geographical indications in China: lobster in Yutai, rice in Yutai, turtle in Yutai and fungus in Yutai.

7.20 12 Yutai county was awarded the title of "China Salix Town" by the Ministry of Forestry. 20 19 10, the national "geographical indication certification trademark" of Yutai Liu Qi fell off Yutai, and the golden business card of "hometown of Liu Qi, China" became more brilliant.