How to draw Zhuang brocade patterns?

Handmade Zhuang brocade is one of the traditional handicrafts of Zhuang nationality in China. Here's how it was made:

1. Material selection: use fine, soft and high-gloss mulberry silk or cotton yarn as the base fabric, and then use colorful colored threads to weave various patterns.

2. Design: According to the pattern requirements, design the pattern, put it on the cloth in proportion, and outline it.

3. Embroidery: Embroider various parts of the pattern with needles and silk thread, and pay attention to the color, pattern shape and texture of the stitch.

4. Trimming: Decorate decorative items such as ribbons or beads on the edge of the cloth after embroidery to enhance the overall aesthetic feeling.

5. Setting: soak the embroidered brocade in water, then lay it flat to dry, and then set it with an iron under the condition of overlapping two sides.

The above is the main technological process of making hand-made brocade, which needs to be polished and refined repeatedly to achieve high-quality finished products.

"Guangxi Tongzhi" contains: Zhuang brocade comes from all counties, and Ai Cai is a strong man. All dresses, towels and quilts belong to five-color velvet, and the weaving is in the shape of flowers and birds. From a distance, it is quite clever and dazzling, nearsighted and thick, and the strong is expensive. Zhuang nationality has a long history and has lived in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and parts of Hunan in the southwest of China for generations. As a kind of arts and crafts, Zhuang brocade is one of the most wonderful cultural creations of the Zhuang people, and its history is also very long. It is said that as early as the Han Dynasty, the local people had produced cave cloth, which was suitable for the hot summer, soft and mature, and could keep out the cold. Smart Zhuang people make full use of plant fibers to weave kudzu vine and twine cloth as clothing. According to the records quoted by Xinyu, Guangdong at that time, this kind of cloth is suitable for summer heat, and soft is cooked and warm. After the founding of New China, archaeologists excavated several orange tapestries in the No.7 remnant burial pit of the Han Tomb in Luobowan, Guangxi, which proved that Guangxi had tapestry skills in the Han Dynasty.