Traditional cotton textile technology (Nantong yarn dyed local cloth technology)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: traditional cotton textile technology

Applicant: Nantong City, Jiangsu Province

Project No.: 883

Project No.: VIII - 100

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Jiangsu Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Nantong City, Jiangsu Province

Protection unit: Nantong Baicao Qianhua Tubu Research Institute

Introduction to traditional cotton textile technology (Nantong yarn dyed local cloth technology)

Applicant: Nantong City, Jiangsu Province

Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, is a famous cotton producing area in China since the Ming Dynasty. For hundreds of years, the local farmers have been farming and weaving by men and women, and "every family practices for Hengye", which is historically known as "the production of kapok cloth is better than other counties".

At the end of the 19th century, Nantong yarn dyed homespun cloth was famous at home and abroad for its exquisite hand weaving, unique printing and dyeing process, thick and firm, durable after washing, and became a local specialty. At the beginning of the 20th century, Nantong's yarn dyed homespun cloth gained unprecedented development. There are more than 100000 specialized homespun weaving households in rural areas, with millions of employees, and the annual sales volume of homespun fabrics reaches 17 million pieces. Nantong has become a famous hometown of local cloth after Songjiang in history.

Nantong yarn dyed homespun technology adopts single spindle hand spinning wheel for spinning, and pedal hand shuttle loom for weaving. Dyeing, roller, warp drawing, weft winding, heald threading, reed embedding and other processes retain the original method, which inherits the ancient Chinese manual yarn dyed weaving technology. There are more than six categories and hundreds of kinds of local cloth. The typical patterns of local cloth include ant, wicker, Osmanthus fragrans, gold and silver silk pattern, reed pattern series, as well as double happiness, color pattern, Hydrangea and character jacquard brocade blanket fabrics. Nantong Haimen Prefecture still has very rare eight tipper eight ensemble and twelve tiers twelve ensemble of ancient multi tiled weave knitting technology, representing the essence of China's folk yarn dyed fabric.