Mr. Silk: Since Ancient Times, He Was Only A Royal Student.

Inheritor profile

Wang Jinshan, who is over 70 years old, is the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage, weaving technology of Suzhou silk. Master of Chinese arts and crafts, master of handicraft in the Asia Pacific region, has been engaged in 58 years.

In 1956, Wang Jinshan became the first batch of trainees recruited by the Suzhou embroidery production cooperative.

In the Suzhou embroidery production cooperative, Wang Jinshan grasped the basic skills of silk. After 3 years, he was appointed teacher of Shen Jinshui, 70.

In 1963, at the invitation of the the Imperial Palace Museum, Wang Jinshan went to Beijing to replicate the plum blossom cold magpie picture of Shen Zifan, a famous silk master in the Southern Song Dynasty, and many other works of famous silk masters.

In the 3 years of the Imperial Palace replication, Wang Jinshan was able to get close contact with famous works. He studied and thought deeply about his skills in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In 1977, Wang Jinshan received a mission. He hoped that he would make Chairman Mao's calligraphy works Xijiang Yue Jinggangshan into the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall.

In history, there are many works of silk, such as silk script and Lishu.

Wang Jinshan used the technique of twisted lines he created to scale the black line of characters as a proportion. According to the thick and thin ink, more or less with the gold thread as the background color, the effect of virtual reality was reflected.

The whole team took a month to complete the huge work of 8 meters long and 2 meters wide.

"Longevity star" is another breakthrough work by Wang Jinshan.

Due to the limitation of traditional silk weaving techniques, traditional silk works are two sides. Wang Jinshan was inspired by double faced embroidery. On a loom, the two rows of warp threads were made into one side, and the weft line was removed by displacement, so that both sides of the work showed completely different patterns and did not interfere with each other.

"Shou Xing Tu" is a seal character "Shou" written by Wu Changshuo, a calligrapher. On the other hand, it is painted by the painter Ren Bonian. The works of two famous calligraphers and calligraphers in the late Qing Dynasty have completed the encounter across time and space.

The world's unique silk product has been collected by the Museum of treasures of the China Arts and Crafts Museum.

In recent years, Wang Jinshan and the Suzhou technician college have established Suzhou traditional craft and Technology Specialty in the college to cultivate intermediate skilled talents in the production of silk products. By learning professional knowledge such as sketch, pattern and color, the students' art appreciation and appreciation ability can be enhanced and modern silk crafts can be developed.

The significance of opening a studio, Wang Jinshan said, is the first to summarize the excellent ancient Silk techniques in our country, and to inherit the handicraft.

Distribution status

The silk flourished in the Song Dynasty.

Because of advocating literature at that time, many royal aristocrats were mounted with famous silk paintings.

Since the Song Dynasty moved southward, he had also brought many skilled craftsmen from Suzhou to Suzhou.

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, silk was monopolized by the royal family, and no longer allowed to use silk fabrics.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were only two places in Suzhou and Beijing. Among them, Suzhou was the most famous, and Suzhou Wuxian Zhang Hua village was called "the village of silk".

Chen Xinshuo, managing director of Beijing Cao Mei Jie silk culture limited liability company, "a dragon silk robe worn by an emperor when he worships heaven, may need several weavers for a few years or even 10 years to complete."

In the late Qing Dynasty, the silk industry declined, and the technology was preserved only in Suzhou.

In 1950s, the skills of silk were slowly restored in Suzhou.

In 1970s, China set up many factories for producing silk goods and crafts in Suzhou, when Japan imported large quantities of silk fabrics from these factories.

"At that time, a top 9 kimono waistband with a length of 9 meters long and 0.33 meters wide, which was spent by master silk on 300 hours, could be changed to a TOYOTA in Japan.

The industry was also rapidly declining because of the disruption of exports to Japan.

Chen Xin said.

At present, there are few enterprises specializing in producing silk products in China, mainly in Suzhou, Nantong and other places.

Production status

Silk

Similar to brocade, it is used for ancient wooden machines and some bamboo shuttles and dials. However, unlike brocade, it adopts the weaving technology of "through weft and broken weft". It uses colored silk as a thread, and uses various colored silk as weft. According to the change of the outline or color of the pattern, weave patterns by changing shuttle and local weft.

Silk has nothing to do with printing and dyeing, no need for bottom cloth.

"One inch silk, one inch gold", the silk fabric is precious, not only because of its expensive silk material and its royal identity, but also because of its complexity and fineness of weaving process.

Wang Jinshan said, "because the colors on the sketches are usually not colored, the weavers need to match their own colors, so they have certain requirements for the weavers' art skills."

It takes at least 10 years to become a skilled Weaver Weaver.

However, when the weavers are skilled enough, their eyesight will be severely reduced due to overwork.

At present, there are less than 200 people in China who master the skills of silk spinning, and only three or four masters of real skills are in the age of rare flowers.

Sales situation

Because

The products that can pform colors freely and are woven with rich artistic appeal become the collections of imperial royalty in the past dynasties.

Nowadays, the handed down of silk is very rare, and the technology of silk is very complicated. A piece of work often takes a year or a half to complete. So every piece of silk works now has a value of more than one million yuan.

Zhu Qiqian, a famous scholar, has only 30 pieces of 113 pieces of silk produced in the Qing Dynasty's collection of silk and paintings.

recently

Embroidery and silk have become the three main force in the field of weaving embroidery.

Among them, silk is the most popular concern. In 2004, the silk works, "the 35 million 750 thousand volumes of the stone inscribed on the stone Lanting Pavilion", once made a high price in the spring auction of China's garde.

And in 2006, a "Qing Kangxi Royal mahogany carved mosaic silk screen painting screen" is a 80 million 500 thousand yuan sky high price.

Compared with other works of art, the fake silk is very few.

Because imitation is too difficult.

To create fake silk works, the cost and difficulty are much larger than that of any handicraft.

There are thousands of progressive colors in the size of a single scarf, requiring advanced technicians to take months to complete.

In general, the value of a piece of silk fabric is mainly measured by the area, complexity and Weaver skill level.

Nowadays, the price of the silk fabric of a famous calligraphy and painting is about 10 yuan to tens of dollars per square centimeter. The price of the silk fabrics appearing in the auction market is between hundreds and thousands of yuan per square centimeter.