Chapter 1143 National Specialties
"It seems that you are really interested in our national specialties." The account manager smiled and said: "Adelais silk is the favorite native silk among ethnic women for making clothing. , mainly produced in Hotan and Kashgar areas, originating from SC County The production is the most famous. ”
“The specific process is as you guessed. It adopts my country’s ancient warping dyeing process. The whole silk is first rolled on a large shaft and then put on a hand-operated rotating shaft. Divide into even strands, and then experienced craftsmen lay the strands flat. It is made into a "painting", and ink drawings of almond wood, wood board patterns, comb flowers and other patterns are made on it, and then handed over to the knotter for tying."
"The warp is tied into a bundle. After that, you can dye it according to the requirements of the pattern. ”
“Dyeing. It can also be divided into multiple layers. During the dyeing process, the silk threads will be moistened by the dyeing liquid, which will naturally form a color halo, staggered, scattered, and not messy. This not only increases the layering of the pattern and the transition surface of the color, but also forms an ed. Leisi silk has a rich variety of pattern characteristics.”
"Then comes the process of warping, warping, and weaving silk. Everyone loves this silk material so much that they gave it the nickname 'Yubo Funeng Kanati Guli', which is a name full of spring. , meaning 'flower with cuckoo wings'. The season when the cuckoo comes back is the time for everyone to change into Adelaide dresses."
Zhou Zhi found another question and turned to ask Ayi. Guli: "Uncle, I'm not from the Hotan area? Why don't you know how to make this silk?"
He now understands that the Han family likes to dye silk into uniform colors and then perform complex weaving. The Uighurs are good at dyeing silk threads into colored threads of one color, and then pulling these colored threads into warp threads, determining the pattern, and then weaving and fixing the warp threads into satin with weft threads.
Ayiguli felt puzzled: "My uncle is in charge of Hotan, so I want to know the ancient weaving technology?"
"Didn't you grow up there when you were a child?"
"I grew up in the Corps Farm." Ayiguli said with a smile: "It seems that at that time, we only bought materials to make clothes. Anyway, I have never seen anyone weaving silk and satin, not even in several groups."< br>
The Northern Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps is very large. The concept of a group is different from that of the inland production team with several households in a group.
The area of a group may far exceed the area of several Jiachuan counties, so what Ayiguli said is actually reasonable. The traditional villages that know how to weave Adelais silk may be far away from It is hundreds of kilometers away from the place where Ayiguli spent her childhood.
Seeing them start bickering, the account manager quickly smoothed things over: "I'll take you to the VIP room to choose. There are all high-quality handicraft products specially prepared by our mall."
Everyone followed the business manager. We walked up to the second floor and came to a small hall with a thick carpet at the entrance.
The eyes of Xu Gang and Ayiguli immediately lit up. If it weren't for Jiuzi's knowledge, the two locals would not have known that there was such a beautiful place hidden inside the largest shopping mall in Urumqi.
Tinware, silverware, bronzeware, wood carvings, knives, woven felts, blankets, flower hats, silks...
It is simply a dazzling array of items full of ethnic customs.
Zhou Zhi glanced at another display place, which was all made of straw.
Zhou Zhi took off a big straw hat: "What kind of grass is this?"
"This is splendens braided." The account manager came up and introduced: "It is the traditional handicraft of our TL County."
Zhou Zhi gave Guo Jiang Shuyi a Panama hat, which is made of hemp fiber imitating Dogilia grass. Zhou Zhi found that the fibers of the two grasses were actually very similar, and the straw hats they knitted were also very similar.
But the price is a different matter. The straw hats here are much cheaper than the ones Zhou Zhi bought for Jiang Shuyi, and they are not comparable to the authentic straw hats woven from Dokilia grass fiber.
The account manager introduced another craft to Zhou Zhi, which is the ingenuity of Kazakh women. They use wool of various colors to wrap around splendens stalks in sections, and then arrange the straw stalks to form a curtain. The pattern is also spliced together, very beautiful. However, Zhou Zhi is not very interested in such colorful door curtains. He is more interested in those original-colored straw woven curtains. They are very sentimental things to put in the study as a pen holder or to insert dried flowers and lotus pods into tea daggers.
There are also jade carvings for sale here, and the craftsmanship is all Su Gong, which means that the jade here are all "resale" products. The jade materials are sent to Suzhou and Hangzhou to be carved, and then sent back for sale.
Compared with the products of the local jade carving factory in Urumqi, the craftsmanship of the carvings is in the sky and on the earth, but the carving method like this is so scary to see.
A piece of excellent first-grade white material was carved into an antique animal face by the carver using the technique of Han Ba Dao. The knife cut very deep and directly dug out a lot of jade meat.
What is even more exaggerated is that there is a hollow gap in the middle of the material. After asking about it, I found out that it is used with a belt. It can be passed through the belt to turn the animal face into a jade decoration around the waist. .
However, after doing this, there is not much jade meat in the center of this piece of material, which is the most essential. In addition, in order to match the waist, the jade meat on the back is directly ground flat, and the delicate antique texture is carved to increase friction. The skin color is retained on the front of the animal's head from the forehead to the tip of the nose, while the skin color is removed on the cheeks and whiskers, creating a color-blocking effect.
The artistic achievement is indeed very high, and the overall design is also very unique and exquisite. The only shortcoming is that it has lost a lot of weight. It is really digging deep and hard, everything is just for the effect, and the loss of materials is not considered at all.
“This is a batch of works sent to Suzhou for processing in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the autonomous region in our Gongmei Shopping Mall in 1975.”
“Except for this animal mask belt buckle, and a set of white jade swords imitating the Han Dynasty, a pair of ringed pepper pictures, and a A pair of dancing flying statues, a mountain sculpture, and a bas-relief of "Wan Fang Music Plays in Khotan""
"Is this what's in the display cabinet?" Zhou Zhi put his face close to the glass counter: "It's terrible... ..."
"Terrible?" The account manager didn't understand what Zhou Zhi meant.
"It was dug too hard..." Zhou Zhi clicked his tongue repeatedly.
"Oh." The account manager then smiled and said: "Actually, what was delivered at that time were two large pieces of material, the animal-faced belt buckle and the ring-ringed pepper picture. In fact, they came from the gap between the dancing flying statues. "The jade sword suit is carved from the materials taken out." During the Khotan period, small scraps were taken off when carving the top of Kunlun Mountain."
"That's too extravagant..." This kind of practice will never be allowed in another twenty years. The materials are all of the highest quality. One gram is worth tens of thousands of dollars if dug out. If you do things like this batch of carvings, tens of millions will be gone.
“These carvings should have been reported at the time, right?” Zhou Zhi asked.
"Definitely, this is the most precious gift for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the autonomous region." The account manager said: "We also have the "Beijiang Pictorial" and "China Art Pictorial" that reported on these carvings at that time, as well as several A newspaper."
"If you buy them all, how much is the total?"
"Huh?" The account manager didn't understand, or didn't dare to understand.
(End of this chapter)