Jiaya Tibetan carpet weaving skills

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Jiaya Tibetan carpet weaving skills

Applicant: Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province

Item No.: 372

Project No.: VIII - 22

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Qinghai Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province

Protection unit: Huangzhong County Cultural Center

Brief introduction of Jiaya Tibetan carpet weaving skills:

Applicant: Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province

Tibetan blanket is a traditional handicraft of Tibetan people in Qinghai. After more than 3000 years of inheritance, Qinghai has gradually formed a Tibetan carpet weaving industry with local characteristics. Due to historical and geographical reasons, there are differences in weaving skills and pattern design between Anduo Tibetan area and Kangba Tibetan area. Kangba Tibetan area (Yushu area) mostly retains the weaving skills of traditional Tibetan blanket, while Anduo Tibetan area integrates Tibetan and Chinese culture in pattern design, with ingenious conception, harmonious tone and unique style.

Jiaya Tibetan blanket belongs to Anduo Tibetan blanket. Its main producing areas are Jiaya village and Shangxinzhuang in Huangzhong County, 26 km away from Xining City, Yushu, Hainan, Haibei, Guoluo Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and guide, Ping'an, Ledu, Huangyuan counties around Xining city.

Tibetan wool is recognized as a high-quality raw material for carpet weaving in the world. Yaks in the Qinghai Tibet region not only account for two-thirds of the world's Yaks in quantity, but also have thick hair and good finish. The raw materials of Jiaya Tibetan blanket are naturally raised Tibetan wool, cashmere, yak cashmere and camel hair. Through low-temperature dyeing, low-temperature washing and other processes, the finished product has the excellent quality of bright color, good elasticity and no decolorization and hair loss. There are 14 series and more than 70 varieties of Jiaya Tibetan carpets, which are made by the method of chain knitting. The surface of the carpets is thicker, about 15 mm or more. At the same time, it retains the characteristics of traditional Tibetan carpets that the edges are not entangled.

The inheritance area of Tibetan carpet art is the birthplace of Tibetan Buddhism, which is closely related to Buddhist culture. Jiaya Tibetan blanket is very particular about the selection of natural raw materials and the implementation of weaving technology, which makes it have the quality of natural environmental protection and meet the needs of people's healthy life, so it is loved by people. In other words, Jiaya Tibetan blanket has high artistic value, historical and cultural value, practical value and commercial value.