Silk weaving technology (Hangzhou brocade technology)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: silk weaving skills (Hangzhou brocade skills)

Applicant: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Project No.: 882

Project No.: VIII - 99

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Hangzhou dujinsheng Industrial Co., Ltd

Brief introduction of silk weaving technology (Hangzhou brocade technology)

Applicant: Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Hangzhou brocade is hand woven on a special jacquard brocade machine with Hangzhou silk as raw material, auspicious patterns and celebrity paintings as objects. The history of weaving brocade in Hangzhou can be traced back to Five Dynasties and ten states. Qian Miao, king of Wu and Yue, set up the official silk workshop "Weaving Room" in Hangzhou. Hangzhou weaving Bureau was one of the three official weaving organizations in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Its products were specially used by the court.

Hangzhou brocade has 58 traditional manual brocade weaving processes, and the weaving techniques of five color brocade, such as weaving pattern piercing and hoisting, reeling (weft) method, lane changing (weft) method, throwing (weft) method, warp returning and weft digging method, are all characteristic of Hangzhou brocade. Hangzhou brocade craft can be divided into decorative brocade and daily brocade, mainly including silk scenery, figures and tapestries, curtains, bedspreads, cushions, etc. Hangzhou brocade combines sketching and decorative art to make brocade art more exquisite. Hangzhou brocade is most famous for its products produced by Hangzhou dujinsheng silk weaving factory. On the basis of inheriting the traditional silk weaving techniques, in order to express the realistic style, it adopts the shadow light organization technique produced by the changes of yin and Yang of eight satins in the process, which vividly displays the level, distance, light and shade of the objects such as the characters and landscapes. In 1926, at the Philadelphia world's fair, the colorful tapestry of ancient paintings "the night tour of the imperial concubine" won the gold medal.

At present, Hangzhou dujinsheng silk weaving factory is the only one to preserve the traditional weaving skills of Hangzhou brocade. Its technicians are all in old age. This precious traditional skill needs to be protected.