In order to promote the inheritance and innovation of intangible cultural heritage, Yuanzhou District in Yichun, Jiangxi Province encourages the establishment of intangible cultural heritage research bases to support inheritors in teaching apprentices, speed up the introduction of craft products to the market, and further enhance the skills and abilities of inheritors. Nowadays, ancient linen has been transformed into prints, lamps, canvas bags, etc., and is known to more people, adding a new color to life.
Grass cloth is linen hand-woven from ramie. Ramie is one of the important fiber crops in ancient my country. Ramie was cultivated in some areas as early as the Neolithic Period, more than 4,700 years ago. The stem fiber of ramie is slender, strong, strong tensile strength, water-resistant, elastic, and insulating.
The production process of linen cloth is relatively complicated, which requires making linen, rolling hemp balls, rolling hemp taro seeds, pulling threads, threading buttons, brushing, weaving, rinsing, Shaping, printing and washing processes. Grass cloth has relatively high requirements on craftsmanship. It may take a skilled worker 4 days to weave a piece of cloth.
my country’s linen weaving technology has a long history. Rongchang linen and Wanzai linen are relatively famous and were sold abroad during the Qing Dynasty. In order to let more people know about linen and inherit the weaving skills of linen, people are actively innovating the styles and uses of linen. The novel and beautiful products have also made more people interested in this traditional technique.
There are three main categories of common linen products on the market: handicrafts, such as screens, fans, etc.; linen prints, usually painted with figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc.; home furniture Accessories such as clothes, scarves, cushions, etc. Handmade linen has the advantages of breathability and perspiration, strong coloring power, not easy to deform, antistatic, and not easy to absorb dust.
