Technical history of dyeing and finishing technology of Xiangyun yarn

Hemp yarn silk is a natural cloth made by hand, and its production process is complicated. It is a national handicraft that is about to be lost. As early as 1965, the Ministry of Textile Industry investigated and combed the dyeing and finishing process of Ranunculus suntan in Foshan. According to historical records, one hundred years ago, people in Foshan (Nanhai, Shunde) and Panyu today produced gamboge gauze. However, it is necessary to buy white embryo gauze from Nanhai Silk Weaving Factory, Dioscorea cirrhosa from Zhaoqing and iron river mud from Pearl River Delta for chemical reaction, so the best quality gauze cannot be produced elsewhere.

The shredded yam is dyed with the juice of Dioscorea cirrhosa, a specialty of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the river mud unique to the Pearl River Delta. Natural and environmentally friendly, soft and full of bone feeling, light to the touch and not easy to wrinkle. From the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, it was produced and exported overseas, reaching its peak in the 1920s and 1930s, and was regarded as aristocratic clothing by the rich in Shanghai at that time.

Because walking will make a rustling sound, it was originally called "Xiangyun yarn", and people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces like to call it "Xiangyun yarn". In Guangdong, it is called buttercup. There must be two kinds of raw materials to make buttercup, one is white embryo yarn (called buttercup after drying), the other is white embryo silk (called buttercup after drying) and two kinds of raw materials, namely river mud, which must be unpolluted iron-containing river mud from Nanhai, Panyu, Shunde and Sanshui, and the other is gray-black.

Xiangyun yarn is an ancient hand-dyed fabric of China, which has a history of 100 years. Because of its unique production technology, rare quantity, long production time and exquisite skills, it has the characteristics of smoothness, coolness, sterilization, insect repellent and health care for the skin, and was called soft gold in the past.

20 13, Xiqiao town, Foshan city, Guangdong province, repaired the long-lost "Xiangyun yarn" flower loom.

Xiangyun yarn, a traditional fabric of Shunde, gathered in Hangzhou to show their latest designs.