subject: Shaoyang Blue Prints - Flower In The Art Of Traditional Printing And Dyeing - Blue Printed Cloth, [print this page] Shaoyang blue prints have a very "rustic" in the name?? Soy fabric, but it was "clothing the world", is a traditional Chinese Printing and dyeing A wonderful art, has been 1000 years of history.
Shaoyang Blue calico is a white pulp stained with anti-color printing indigo dyed cloth. It originated from ancient Miao, Yao's "Langan spot cloth" and "wax Valerian." According to "Shaoyang County," "Baoqing wins worry" it reads: Don Zhenguan period, Shaoyang cotton Textile The rise in Miao-Yao batik Shaoyang based on the first milk of lime on behalf of the wax to dye dyeing method. To the Ming and Qing dynasties, as sea and land transport development, information leading to the Yangtze River, Wuhan has a dedicated terminal Baoqing cloth. Shaoyang merchants were gathered, the largest in South China and even the blue calico Southwest production, printing, distribution centers, known as the blue prints of the village.
Shaoyang Blue calico is a set of folk art and handicrafts in one of the folk art, divided blue and white blue and white flowers of two, is a hollow printing with dye without fading, washing Fast, grain like patterns more clearly the characteristics of the more washing. The process is: first oiled paper with thick, carved out of the required pattern flower version, and then press the fabric flower version, the version of the hollow Department spent on one kind of brush to reconcile with lime and soy milk anti-dyed pulp. Dry cloth will be put into indigo dye vat dye Canada, dye and then dried.
Shaoyang blue calico is not only practical, but also has high aesthetic value. Patterns of Blue Printed material is often chosen with some auspicious meaning, most of the content of their patterns drawn from folk tales or auspicious patterns, the most representative are: "Phoenix Peony", "Hydrangea Lion," "Goldfish show Lotus "," luck and the worst "," Phoenix Deer "," mandarin ducks playing in the water, "" Butterfly opera Peony "other. The content is mainly affected by the impact of Chinese culture, but also traces how national culture, making use of symbol, metaphor, euphony and other means with a full heavy Chinese cultural heritage and natural beauty of simplicity. Scholars left Hanzhong recalled: childhood that women dressed in blue calico apron and smock, fresh and elegant, starkness. Dyeing workshop, the optical backbone of the folks were rolling on the stone step in the cloth, a small ditch out of the faint blue water, is really a beautiful landscape.
From the late Republic of China, caused by the mechanism of dyeing fabric and cloth, and replaced by modern, Shaoyang blue prints gradually fade out from the modern life. Early liberation, only 8 out of Shaoyang County, large printing and dyeing workshop, more than 30 small dye house, but in 1986, and finally a blue calico printing and dyeing mill in Shaoyang County, Fung changpuzhen failed. "Clothing the world" Shaoyang blue prints on the verge of extinction, surviving now only a handful of old artists. (Shaoyang County Museum offers) [Key words]: Blue prints Printing and dyeing Printing Comment Large In Small
