During the race, the "Tang Hua Fei Xue" series of dresses will be served in the awards square, and the hats will be inlaid with two old Beijing velvet flowers as decorations. These velvet flowers are "knifed" by Cai Zhiwei, the sixth generation inheritor of Beijing velvet birds.
The copper wire twists, twisting the silk into a round and rolling velvet strip, smoking, braking, scalding, and saving Cai Zhiwei's index fingers and thumbs form a thick cocoon, and the ends of the fingers faintly see the mottled scabs, Cai Zhiwei laughed and said that this is a "badge of honor."
"Dyeing this pass has tormented me for a long time." Cai Zhiwei said that simulating the light and shadow effect through color gradients presents a three-dimensional sense, which is a major feature of velvet flowers. According to the traditional mulberry silk dyeing process, red from dark to light will show dark brown, positive red, peach, orange, turmeric and other color changes. "The Winter Olympics awards uniform is only red and white, and it must be red but not colorful, and the gradient is not yellow." Constantly adjusting the formula and trying more than a dozen versions, Cai Zhiwei was always dissatisfied. On a whim, he tried to change it to a mineral dye. In the incubator, hot water at 80 degrees Celsius was boiled for half an hour, and Cai Zhiwei carefully immersed a strand of silk. "It's done!"
Selection of silk, bandages, splitting rows, tethering rows, rubbing strips Cai Zhiwei said that each of these dozen processes is very important, not only to ensure that the flowers are well-made, but also to unify the size, color and shape of all the velvet flowers. Although the production process was arduous, Cai Zhiwei was full of expectations: "The intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship that highlights the unique charm of oriental aesthetics will add a strong touch to the Winter Olympics." ”
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Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporter Wang Kexin
Editor: Han Ye
Process Editor Tai Shaofeng