Grass Cloth (National Non Heritage)

Summer cloth is made of hand made of ramie YISHION. plain cloth And rib cloth. Also known as ramie cloth, raw cloth, linen, flat yarn. As early as the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the ancestors of the ancient Yue people in Jiangxi had begun to cultivate and use hand woven cloth with ramie.

Ramie is woven into cloth after degumming, bleaching, warping, washing, weaving and weaving. After making cloth, it needs to be forged and bleached to make white ramie and white ramie cloth.

Jiangxi Ramie cloth In the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was selected as a tribute for the ancient Chinese costumes. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Jiangxi's summer cloth and Tong Yin summer cloth were both famous at home and abroad and exported to the ports of North Korea and Southeast Asia. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Longchang's summer cloth was one of the main export commodities of Sichuan, which was famous both at home and abroad as well as Jiangxi Wanzai and Hunan Liuyang cloth.

Grass cloth ramie According to the quality and quality of ramie raw materials, different kinds and quality of summer cloth are produced. The whole production process is divided into raw material planting, raw material making, yarn finishing, warp knitting, weaving and so on.

In the twentieth Century 20~30 era, the summer cloth industry was shrinking day by day because of the rise of rayon products. With the development of science and technology and the demand of the market, handmade ramie cloth can not satisfy people's life, so woven ramie cloth arises at the historic moment.

The linen textile enterprises in Xinyu, Jiangxi, are prepared by the leading technology of microbiological degumming, producing ramie fibers with excellent brightness, moisture absorption and good air permeability. They are free from environmental pollution and can be used to spin high grade and high density pure hemp fabrics.

The grass cloth is not refined. It is called natural cloth or raw cloth. Its texture is stiff and its color is yellowish. It can only make pockets and linings. The production of mosquito nets and clothing requires fine bleaching, dyeing or printing. After rinsing, the cloth is soft, and then the cloth is smooth, neat, and beautiful. The picture shows Jiangxi women making grass cloth.