Zhuang brocade originated in ( )

Strong brocade originated in the Song Dynasty. Specific explanations are as follows:

1. Introduction to Zhuang brocade

Strong brocade is a work of art that is skillfully interwoven on a hand loom equipped with a support system, a transmission device, a heddle device, and a jacquard device with cotton yarn as the warp and various kinds of colorful velvets as the weft, and with the use of warp and weft broken method. Zhuang brocade, also known as "boy brocade" and "velvet quilt", is thicker. Zhuang brocade is most suitable for quilts, mattresses, backpacks, bags, aprons and tablecloths.

Strong brocade is made of cotton or linen yarn as warp, and two kinds of colorful wefts are woven in without twisting or slightly twisted to form symmetrical patterns on the front and back of the fabric, and the ground tissue is completely covered to increase the thickness, and there are also many kinds of colorful wefts picked out, with complex pattern organization, mostly geometric patterns, bright colors, strong contrasts, and a strong and rugged style of art.

2, Zhuang brocade traceability

Strong brocade as arts and crafts weaving, is one of the most wonderful cultural creations of the Zhuang people, its history is also very long. It is said that as early as in the Han Dynasty, the local has produced "fine for the summer, soft and ripe for the cold" of the "mine cloth". Clever and intelligent Zhuang people, make full use of plant fibers, weaving cloth, cloth as clothing.

According to the "Guangdong New Language" quoted at that time, the record said, this fabric, "fine for the summer, soft and ripe to keep out the cold". After the founding of new China, archaeologists in Guangxi Lopo Bay Han Tomb of the seventh remains of the burial pit excavated several pieces of orange-red back to brocade fragments, confirming that the Han Dynasty in Guangxi has been brocade weaving skills.

3, fancy use

Traditional Zhuang brocade to cotton, hemp thread for the ground warp, ground weft plain interweaving, used to make quilt tops, mattress tops, backpacks, backpacks, hanging bags, aprons and so on. Zhuang brocade patterns are vivid, structured and colorful, with common patterns such as big and small ten thousand characters, as well as more complex patterns such as double phoenix sunrise, phoenix peony, and lion rolling ball.

4, tooled patterns

After more than a thousand years of development, Zhuang brocade has a self-contained system of three major types of patterns, one is a geometric decorative patterns based on continuous patterns, the second is a composite pattern of flowers as the theme, and the third is the theme of auspicious beasts as the pattern. Traditionally used patterns are mainly python dragon pattern, Wanshou pattern, Fukuda pattern, the word chrysanthemum pattern, back to the pattern, water pattern, cloud pattern, flowers, animals and so on more than 20 kinds of vivid patterns, strict structure, colorful, full of warm, cheerful national style.