Wool spinning and rolling technology (Uygur tapestry manufacturing technology)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: wool textile and rolling skills (Uygur tapestry making skills)

Applicant: Keping County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Project No.: 884

Project No.: VIII - 101

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Keping County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Protected by: Keping County Cultural Center

Brief introduction of wool spinning and rolling technology (Uygur tapestry manufacturing technology)

Applicant: Keping County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Uygur flower felt (kegezi) is a unique ancient handicraft in Keping County, Xinjiang. This kind of skill has been handed down from generation to generation by the industrious people of Keping, with distinctive local characteristics.

There are obvious differences between the weaving skills of Keping Uighur felt and those of other places in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The weaving skills of Keping Uighur felt belong to the category of "weaving felt". The main component is natural wool. In the manufacturing process, no other raw materials are added, and only natural plant dyes are used for dyeing. It is a pure natural hand-made product. It is the daily necessities of Uygur family life, and flower felt also plays an important role in the treatment of endemic diseases in ethnic medicine.

Uygur flower felt (kegezi) production technology is mainly preserved in kumuli village, yuerqi rural area, Keping County, Xinjiang. In recent years, there are fewer and fewer craftsmen engaged in felt making. Now only a few inheritors are still insisting on production, so the protection work needs to be strengthened.

The Uygur flower felt (kegezi) production technology is a symbol of cultural crystallization left by the diligent and intelligent ancestors. Keping flower felt has a wide range of applications and is an indispensable household goods for Uygur people's daily life. It has a certain cultural, academic and practical value.