A piece of native cloth, seemingly flat and simple, full of the wisdom and hard work of the weaver, precipitated with a deep culture, what is the silk buckle, time is like a shuttle, weaving a piece of cloth, you know.
Weaving, at least more than two thousand years old, Meng Mu broken machine is proof of this.
In Huarong Town, Ezhou City, there is a group of mothers-in-law who still inherit the traditional culture of these two thousand years - Huarong Tubu making technology has been rated as an intangible cultural heritage project in Hubei Province, and 66-year-old Ni Zhenyun is one of the representatives. Last week, a reporter from Chutian Metropolis Daily came to Ni's mother-in-law's house, and she showed the reporter the whole process of weaving. Let's take a quick-forward look at it first: picking cotton, spinning, sizing, dyeing, buckles, combing, and weaving.
"A piece of earthen cloth with 500 threads as a warp and a length of 15 meters takes 10 days." Ni Grandma said in detail, the most time-consuming part of weaving is in the spinning thread, a day can spin three or four two is very good, spinning thread has to take 8 days, after the link although there are many, but a pair of skillful hands she can get it in a day or two.
"It's like knitting a sweater, first of all, you have to concentrate the thread into a clump." As she spoke, she demonstrated the drawers with her hands and feet, a total of 500 threads.
Next, a thread is threaded with a hook into a comb-like buckle. "This is called a silk buckle, a hole leaked, it becomes a rag." Grandma Ni instructed her apprentice Xie Fengyun to operate carefully.
After that, this strand of thread must be "combed", straightened and smoothed, and then the loom can be put on. "My loom is a hundred or two hundred years old." Grandma Ni's craft was taught by her mother, who studied under her grandmother, and her elderly mother, who is 94 years old, has a good eye and also demonstrated it on the spot.
When weaving cloth, the hand shuttles, pedals, hands and feet are used together, and the heart understands, "This is the corresponding heart and hand." Grandma Ni said with a smile.
Boom! The shuttle flew around in the hands of Grandma Ni, the sun sprinkled on the loom, the light and shadow, the line was like light, the light was like a line. "That's how time goes!" While demonstrating, Grandma Ni, who is exquisite in craftsmanship, told reporters one by one about the cultural roots hidden in the weaving process.
Two thousand years of craftsmanship, nearly two hundred years old loom, flower nail mother-in-law, inherit the profound Chinese culture. "A lot of young people don't want to learn, think it's time-consuming and not profitable, but culture is really important!" Grandma Ni accepted two apprentices, and after the traditional craftsmanship was passed on, she could also feel at ease.
Chutian Metropolis Daily reporter Chen Xi XiaoHao