Hainan Miao Women Who Are Good At Textile Clothing And Embroidery

Miao women are industrious, smart, ingenious, good at weaving. Batik dyeing And embroidery.

Batik is the oldest dyeing and printing technology of Miao nationality. It is a kind of printing and dyeing technology that Miao women have accumulated and developed in the long term production and life practice. The skirt pattern of Miao women is made by batik method. The patterns are black and white, and they are very beautiful. Batik process: bending a piece of bamboo slices into "U" shape, as a point dyeing tool, called wax knife. Then put the beeswax into the bowl and use the fire to melt it, then use wax knife to wax liquid, and dye it carefully on the white cloth, such as loose branches, herringbone grain, and pressed cross stripe, etc. After dyeing, remove the cloth and put it into the basin, then pour it into warm water to melt the beeswax and rinse it. At this time, the batik fabric is green and white with distinct patterns.

Embroidery is an ingenious skill of Miao women. They embroidered exquisite patterns in their favorite scarves, belts, skirts and sleeves with all kinds of colored yarns, with strong national characteristics and distinctive styles. Miao women do not do anything in embroidery, and directly embroider designs on cloth. If embroidery is done on a large area of cloth, the cloth should be divided into several symmetrical squares or prismatic shapes, and then embroidered with all kinds of patterns.

Looms are the diligent and intelligent people of the Miao nationality, who invented and created textile equipment for spinning and weaving to solve the problem of clothing. The weaving machine of the Miao nationality is a desktop handloom, and the front end of the platform is equipped with spun yarn and spinning line, and the back is seated. The loom is equipped with 1 swing movable rods in the middle, with a fixed bar under the bottom, a cable box under the rod, and 2 rows of cuttings on the back. Each row has 9 spun threads, and the spinning line has been pulled from the cuttings to the terminal in front of the loom frame. There are cloth knives on the left side of the terminal, and cable bundles under it, so that they can be interlaced when weaving.

Dyestuff is a dyed cloth pigment made by Miao women themselves. It is a kind of wood blue plant, lime and wine. The production process: put the stems and leaves of the indigo plant in a large cylinder for 3 to 7 days. After the juice is turned into blue and blue, remove the residue and extract the blue glue. When dyeing cloth, put blue glue and proper amount of lime and wine in a large cylinder, stir it with wooden sticks and pour it into the cylinder, then mix it evenly, so that the dyestuff is blue and dyed.

When making women's skirts, the Miao women make some waxes on the white cloth before making them. If they are mended, they will be dyed first and then tailored. Nowadays, with the development of society, the Miao people in Hainan no longer spun and weave their own cloth, but bought the white cloth at the fair to make homemade. dyestuff Dye it dark blue and then sew it up. female clothing 。