When the peony flowers bloom in spring, on the way to Xianju Heiyu Village to watch the peony flowers, you have the opportunity to go to the Dongbao Wangqunfu bamboo weaving craft shop to appreciate the bamboo weaving products. The store is a small workshop, the front store and the back house. What is conspicuous is that there is a five-layer display shelf on the east wall, on which the owner's bamboo weaving works are placed, all of which are exquisite and chic, with various styles such as puffs, baskets, boxes, etc., which are both artistic and practical.
Master Wang Qunfu is about 60 years old, and he is sitting on a chair with an apron and patiently cutting and polishing the bamboo knots in preparation for the next step of weaving the bottom of the bamboo basket. I saw that there were already more than a dozen small bamboo baskets on the ground beside him, and he grinded out new bamboo crumbs and fell on his apron.
During the conversation, I learned that Master Wang has been weaving bamboo for many years, and has some fame in the local area, and people who need to use bamboo in their lives will come to him to buy it, but because he is the only one in the store to weave, no one among the juniors is willing to learn this craft. There is no help, and the output of pure handwork is limited, so it is difficult to improve the economic benefits.
The bamboo weaving process can be roughly divided into three processes: bottoming, weaving and locking. In the weaving process, the warp and weft weaving method is the mainstay. On the basis of warp and weft weaving, it can also be interspersed with various techniques, such as: thinning, inserting, wearing, cutting, locking, nailing, tying, sleeve, etc., so that the pattern and color of the weaving are varied. Products that need to be matched with other colors are interspersed with dyed bamboo pieces or bamboo wires to form a variety of color contrast, bright and bright patterns.
Bamboo weaving requires skill, hand-eye coordination, otherwise it is difficult to weave successfully. The development status of the bamboo weaving industry is the aging of craftsmen, most of them are middle-aged and elderly people like Wang Qunfu master, some are still elderly, and few young people are willing to learn this skill. Its development and future trends are roughly as follows:
1.Market demand continues to grow: With the improvement of people's quality of life and green environmental protection requirements, bamboo weaving products are gradually favored because of their natural materials and unique style. The increase in market demand provides a good development opportunity for the bamboo weaving industry.
2.The inheritance of skills is facing difficulties;Under the impact of modern industrialization, the inheritance and protection of bamboo weaving skills are facing difficulties. Many traditional bamboo weaving crafts are precious and unique, but they lack the training and continuation of a new generation of talents, resulting in the inability to effectively inherit the technical level.
3.Market competition is becoming increasingly fierce: With the expansion of the bamboo weaving industry market, market competition is also intensifying. Many places have begun to invest in the development of the bamboo weaving industry, resulting in an increase in homogeneous competition in the market, but the quality of mass production is low, and the product quality is reduced accordingly, which has an impact on pure handicraft and a decline in income.
Bamboo weaving has a long history, and its development has not been annihilated, and there is still an opportunity to get rid of the predicament in the end. The first is to seek breakthroughs from the excavation skills and develop more application scenarios, the second is to work hard in the transmission and help, through the technician standard, so that this skill is willing to be learned, and the third is to work the sales channel, and smooth the integration of production, supply and marketing through the online e-commerce platform.
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