Beautiful Patchwork Or New Textile Industry

In the morning of October 27th, I was engaged in China Textile City. Fabric Miss Tu, who was designed, made a special trip to the Expo site and went straight to the mosaic art exhibition area. "These two days, colleagues are talking about this piece of patchwork, a bag asking for four thousand or five thousand yuan, all said very shocked! I also rushed to it." Miss Tu said.

　　 A patchwork bag priced at several thousand yuan.

On the eastern side of the entrance of the Expo exhibition hall, more than 20 domestic and foreign spying exhibitors are gathered together. There are all kinds of cloth, handbags and home textiles made of small pieces of cloth, which seem to be full of artistic sense.

These exhibits are so cute that many people are asked to buy them. Exhibits 。 "At present, the price of the patchwork bag in Japan, Korea and the United States is four thousand or five thousand yuan, no less than the international brand package." Song Jianming, vice president of the China Fashion Color Association and vice president of The China Academy of Art, said that the quilt was stitched together with several pieces of cloth of different colors and patterns to finish a Peugeot. Its prototype is the clothes are broken, cut a good cloth seam to continue to use. But after several centuries of development, today's patchwork has been integrated into creativity and become a "tall" artwork, which is quite popular in Europe, America, Japan and Korea.

　　 Only 30% of Keqiao fabric is suitable for patchwork.

At the scene of the show, apart from the patchwork display, the fabric, sewing machine and accessories were displayed. On the booth of Taiwan grand handicraft Industrial Co., Ltd., 5 rolls of cloth, like pencil length and color, are packaged in a box, priced at 62.5 yuan. "This is 1/8 meter cloth, cut into patterns, you can make your own small quilt." Exhibitors said that with the DIY upsurge, patchwork has become a fashionable DIY industry in Taiwan after cross stitch and homemade toys.

"At present, the fabric of the quilt is made of Japanese fabrics, Korean fabrics, and the United States. Fabric The main requirement is cotton cloth and quality must be excellent. Song Jianming said that although China's textile city has many kinds of fabrics, it can only meet 30% of its requirements.

Do you know how big the patchwork industry is? Last year, the total output value of the American quilting industry reached 3 billion 680 million dollars, and the practitioners reached 22 million, and the annual growth rate was 15% at a high rate. "As the largest fabric supply market, China Light Textile City should seize this opportunity to produce more fabrics suitable for making quilts." Song Jianming said.

　　 Shaoxing entrepreneurs want to make big quilt industry

Yang Tiejiang, chairman of the Shaoxing cultural and Creative Industries Co., Ltd., has already noticed the patchwork industry. For more than 20 years, he has worked with art and design circles for a long time, and has also extensively cooperated with China Fashion Color Association. In 2011, the China Fashion Color Association established a special mosaic Specialized Committee, which made him realize the prospect of patchwork art in Chinese market. "The introduction of quilting art for the first time will bring more textile city vendors to the attention of the patchwork industry and the value of patchwork, so as to focus on the development and production of patchwork fabrics." Yang Tiejiang said.

In the quilt Art Festival, apart from the patchwork display, Yang Tiejiang also invited the famous Chinese patchwork artist Jin Yuanshan, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln international patchwork research center and the curator of the museum, Ms. Marie, the famous Korean quilt artist Jin Meizhi, the cannon artist, Brenda and other domestic and foreign spying artists to the site of the Textile Expo, to do the patchwork training, to further spread the quilting art, so that more people can enjoy the music of the quilt making.

"In addition to these activities, we will cooperate with colleges and enterprises to make the patchwork bloom and form the market, and then to guide the upgrading of the textile industry through the market." Yang Tiejiang said.