Yao's National Style Of Embroidery

In the "golden pot wave ink", it is recorded that the clothes, heavy skirts, collar and sleeves of the Yao family are all embroidered with colored embroidery. It can be seen that embroidery technology has a long history in the Yao family, forming a heritage tradition in life. therefore Embroidery of Yao family The craft is elegant, fine, colorful, and unique.

Yao girls are always proud of their embroidery and silk dress. According to folklore, this dress comes from a proud story.

According to legend, the mother-in-law of the Virgin Mary saw that the king of Pangu had cut the sky out of the sky, and then unfolded his apron and spread it to the sky. The beautiful patterns on the skirt become colorful clouds in the sky, giving off seven colors of light and beautifying the world. The girl of Yao family sacrificed the opening ceremony of the Virgin Mary, flaunting the role played by women in the epoch making, inherited the craft of embroidering embroidered skirt dress and weave the brocade, and the girl of the Yao family mastered the unique national craft of the Yao family and produced it skillfully. Nation A unique dress.

Yao embroidery mainly includes scarves, belts, aprons and hanging pads. Bonnet Kun Dai, Kam bag.

The cloth of scarf is mostly made of green cloth, sky blue cloth and dark blue cloth. It is five feet two inches in length and five inches in width. Both ends of the scarf embroidered multicolored patterns with silk thread, most of which were embroidered characters, rattan flowers and Swastika. The man tied the headband embroidered with lace to his head, shaped like an antenna, and was extremely powerful. The women wore the designs on both ends of the scarves behind their heads, just like wearing colorful multicolored bun, soft and beautiful.

The belt is an important part of the Yao costume. The cloth is the same as the headscarf, about eight feet long and embroidered with lace patterns at both ends. The girdle of the male belt is about two to three inches long, with symmetrical pattern and chain pattern. It also has a pictographic flower and grass, which is tied to the waist. The pattern is exposed at both ends of the waist, showing a man's strong style. The embroidered designs of women's belts should be embroidered at least five inches, with plum blossoms and Kingfisher in it. Tied to the waist, the two ends of the beautiful design from the waist to the buttocks, walking up and down with the pace, appears to be light and floating.

The chest apron is the unique clothing of Dongshan Yao, and its cloth is mostly used in navy blue or dark blue. It is about two feet to four meters to a metre long. The skirt is attached to a brocade of three to five inches wide, embroidered with flowers, colored Phoenix or floating moire on the two corners of the skirt, and red tassels are hung up. In front of women, it looks dignified and elegant, and has practical value. If labor needs to pull things, pile up aprons and put them on the waist, so that five to ten kilograms can be packed.

A hanging woman is used by women not to wear the left chest of their clothes to wipe sweat. Use bright coloured cloth, shape square, about two feet wide, embroidered with lace around, then choose the beautiful patterns on the diagonal embroidery as the pads, then embroider a square picture in the middle of the hanging pads, fold the diagonal, and pull the buttons from the collar to hang down the chest. At the same time, the patterns set on the skirts and sides of the clothes are set up on the left and right, so that the colors are ornament moderately, beautiful and generous, and show the perfect and handsome appearance of the Yao girls. {page_break}

Weaving is also a unique handicraft product of the Yao family. Its types include lace, brocade, homespun, Ge Ma textile and so on.

Weaving tools and weaving machines are made of wood looms. The refined knitted tools are very simple. They only use one piece of bamboo to grow about eight inches to one foot, and the ends can be sharpened and shaved.

The knitting of lace and brocade, first dyeing cotton yarn into color line, then matching the brocade line, winding around the bench, and after the width is suitable, weave the weaving flower and raise the head from the good warp line, and then weave it. The length of lace is long, short, wide and narrow. It is suitable for use. The length is two to three meters, and the width is one to four inches. Some are narrow to two, while others are six inches wide. The weave patterns include Phoenix Phoenix, Phoenix, water, peacock, and peacock. There are also fish jumping dragon gate, frog diving, eight foot crabs, water dragonfly and exotic flower and so on. This kind of knitted fabric is mainly used for sewing clothes, scarves, belts and aprons, and some of them are used to connect quilt or quilt. No matter what the purpose is, it will add a bright color to the articles.

The brocade is one of the most important clothes of the Yao family. According to legend, in ancient times, a woman in the Yao family went to the mountains to cut firewood. She saw a poisonous snake blocking the road. She was not afraid to take the snake and choke it. She stripped her skin and tied it on her legs. The snake in the mountain saw it running. So she knitted the ribbon into a ribbon, like a snake skin, to tie up skirts, leggings and straw sandals. Since then, weaving weave has become the custom of Yao family.

In addition to weaving embroidered pattern scarves and large cloth belts at both ends, the Yulian woman also used the brocade thread and Luo gauze to weave the colorful ribbon with fine techniques. As long as the girl is eleven to two years old, when the mother is dyed with colored yarn, she teaches the girl to weave the brocade. When the girl reaches fifteen and six years old, she can skillfully weave the best quality weave.

The Yao family's Brocade small width is only three points, about three feet long, and is used for "straw shoes", cigarette bags, and gift bags. The medium is about five points wide and five feet long. It is used as a gift for children. The size of the tuba is two inches wide and six feet long. Some young women weave the brocade, and leave it as a gift for their lover. It is also an indispensable dress and gift for women when they are brides.

It is widely used in the life of the Yao family. Therefore, every year, during the slack season and the cold winter season, the girls of the Yao family join together to weave the brocade. They bought seven colored silk threads, pulled them on the long wooden bench, and raised the thread patterns of the weave patterns that they wanted to weave. Then they set up the shuttle and carefully woven them. On the sides of the belts, two red lines with similar colors were used as edges. In addition to weaving ten thousand characters, four stars and six plum trees, there were patterns of lotus, plum blossom, star, rose and so on. The color is mainly red and bright, which means red hot mood and red fire. The two sides also weave a deformed bird pattern with silver beads and blisters. At the end of the belt, there are three pieces of brocade whiskers with a crystal bead chain tied around the waist. The ends of the belt are tied into a knot, and the brocade must hang down to the buttocks. Therefore, the flower belt is a labor that the girl of the Yao family keeps on doing for a long time.

Ge Ma textile is a household linen made by Yao family. Yao Shan is cold and frozen, and it is not suitable to grow cotton. The ancestors of the Yao family picked up the Ge Ma on the mountain, and the household craft of the linen cloth was handed down from generation to generation and became a habit of life. So every summer after the field was planted, Yao and his wife climbed up the mountain to collect Ge Asato. After going home, they used water to soak, remove their skins, wash away the epidermis, twist the white and pure linen into thin threads, and then use the wooden machine to make the linen cloth, then sew them into clothes or make them into mosquito nets and sacks. Gable cloth is hard and wearable. It can be made into mosquito nets and can be hung for ten or twenty years. It can be made into gunny bags or baskets to load rice or other crops. It is safe and reliable, and is not easy to splash, and is more suitable for transporting goods in mountainous areas. Gunny bags have played an unforgettable good role in the transportation history of Yao Shan.