After several industrialization processes, the ancient industry of textiles has entered the 21st century.
Thousands of years have passed since men and women weaved, and handmade cotton cloth has almost disappeared and entered museums.
The warm, unpretentious memory of handmade cotton has not been erased. In recent years, it has begun to be loved by more and more people. Nostalgia is a factor, but not all. Handmade cotton cloth is not only a temperature, but also a manifestation of ingenuity, and more of an attitude. The value of handicraft is now recognized by more people. Even close to the ranks of luxury.
As a result, handmade cotton quilts have repeatedly appeared in the market. Unfortunately, many of the processes are incomplete and generalized. It is far from handmade cotton cloth in the true sense of the word. It is just a hand-woven cloth made of cotton yarn made by a large factory machine, which can only be said to be "hand-woven cloth". In addition, dyeing is also a chemically synthetic dye, which is incompatible with the concept of handmade cotton cloth.
Truly handmade cotton must first be hand-spun, which is very critical and a scarce resource at present. There are not many people who can spin yarn by hand, plus it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the wage is not low, which makes ** soar. Traditional dyeing by hand is also a major technical bottleneck, and fewer people have mastered this technique than hand-spinning. Many sliver lattices or patterns need to be dyed with yarn first, or cotton dyed before they can be spun by hand before they can be weaved. Such handmade cotton cloth is of high grade.
Attached is a set of real shots, so that everyone can understand the whole process:
*Provided by: Gong Xiaosen, Zibo, Shandong.
Text: Huang Ronghua.
The twentieth month of the year of the Emperor.