Chinese textile has a long history. Textile products can be classified into four categories: embroidery, silk, clothing carpet. These four varieties have different manufacturing processes unique styles. Here are a brief introduction to them.

Embroidery

Embroidery, as a handicraft, is developed on the basis of general sewing. It is a great progress of human civilization to sew clothes with needles wires.

Chinese embroidery has a long history. In the Neolithic Age of China, the Hemudu people, more than 7000 years ago, only used bone needles, but also had textiles. For thousands of years, Chinese embroidery has developed along such a line: first, embroidered clothes, then daily necessities, then rose to embroidery ornaments. It can be divided into two categories: embroidery household goods embroidery calligraphy painting.

Embroidery is a kind of primary art, which is created for the beauty of one's life. Embroidery is simple pure, showing the deep feeling of embroidery artists.

silk

Silk is a kind of liquid ejected by silkworms during cocooning. It is made of silk protein sericin by air coagulation. The properties of silk are excellent, toughness elasticity are good. A silkworm can spin about 1000 meters long. Sericulture silk reeling, silk weaving embroidery, became the main labor of ancient Chinese women. A small insect has played such a big role in the life of Chinese people, caused the world's shock.

When did Chinese silk fabrics appear? According to archaeological data, Chinese silk fabrics began Liangzhu culture of Neolithic Age in Southeast China, about 2735-2175 BC.

The Han Dynasty (206 B.C. - 220 A.D.) the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) were two heyday periods. In the field of silk weaving, it has also developed unprecedentedly, reaching a peak, many objects have been handed down. For a long time, China was only the country that invented silk, but also the only country with such handicraft industry. Due to the export of high-grade silk fabrics, China is known as the "silk country" in the world.

The term "silk" refers to the category of silk fabrics. Silk, with fine texture but too light, can be divided into raw weave, cooked weave, plain weave simple pattern on plain weave.

The patterns patterns of Chinese silk fabrics present a colorful scene at the beginning. No matter small flower, large flower, monochrome, color, geometric natural shape, they are all adapted to the silk structure practical use, they are also in contrast with the art decoration of the same era. The traditional Chinese decorative patterns only pay attention to the aesthetic feeling of form, but also emphasize the meaning of auspiciousness. Those propositions of exorcism evil drive are also for peace blessing.

Silk brocade, with its gorgeous noble quality, has won the treasure of all mankind. It is also complicated diverse with various weaving techniques, unique artistic ingenuity, which has created three thousand years of brilliance.