Xinjiang: Never Fading Soil Textile Technology Continues To Fade (Two)

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Twisting, dyeing, weaving into warp and weft, and then making synthetic thread blanket.

Parazi, a primitive handicraft carpet, once existed in many mountainous areas in southern Xinjiang, but gradually disappeared in recent years.

Perhaps the location of Hei Ying Shan is remote, and material life is relatively poor, so that it can be retained.

A few decades ago, not only para Zi, but also the wool used for sacks, bars and loops were processed by the villagers themselves.

Weaving a parzzi should at least use 4 kilograms of wool, and after the wool is twisted into thread, the next dyeing process is quite critical.

Black Yingshan people use very rich natural dyes, both plants and minerals. The production process is ancient and complex.

Paridanm Yakup produced several kinds of ore and grass roots, she said, and made walnut skin, pomegranate peel, mulberry bark and so on.

Jia Yingyi, a researcher at the Autonomous Region Museum, has been studying Xinjiang woollen fabrics for many years.

She discovered that the vegetable dyes used in ancient Xinjiang carpets include: pagoda, pomegranate peel, Ulda (i.e. "madder"), mulberry bark, walnut peel, raisins, etc.

Mineral dyes are mainly indigo and Zach.

Indigo can be dyed blue and Zach can be dyed yellow.

In addition, Xinjiang also produces alum, green vitriol and other dyeing medium.

The book of the Sui Dynasty is recorded in the Western biography.

Rao green salt, realgar, Hu powder...... "

These can be used as dyes.

Jia Yingyi said that many of the natural pigments derived from nature are still in use among the public today.

The carpet is simple and unfading, and the softer the older the color, there is a strong flavor of folk art.

Ore dyes can be obtained from the surrounding black Yingshan, but the road is far away from danger. It takes 4 days to ride and more than 200 kilometers to go.

In the past, the use of mineral dyes was widely used in weaving carpet around the mountain area, and because of the high price, some male villagers in Hei Ying Shan went to mining.

In recent years, because of the sharp reduction of carpet tapestry and the use of finished wool, few people have ever collected ore dyes.

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Dyeing is time-consuming and requires great patience and high cost.

Paridanm Yakup sometimes uses the finished yarn at the moment, "but paolzi, who is woven, lacks a certain flavor. The person who knows the goods will still choose the Parazi with more than doubled price."

Once, Hei Ying Shan's local textile technology is known far and wide. Many foreigners come here to learn textile technology. Many local men also use carpet weaving as their business.

Gradually, Parazi's demand was reduced, and young people were also left behind. Few people were willing to learn.

As a "living fossil" of the textile industry, the technology of indigenous textile has a long history. Its soil selection, spinning and weaving process has certain academic research value. In addition, it uses natural plant and natural ore dyeing technology. Heying mountain textile has been included in the intangible cultural heritage protection project of the self governance area.

The local people have realized the valuable value of the textile technology in Hei Ying Shan, and the township has intensified the inheritance of the textile technology.

Since 2005, local secondary schools have opened up.

Vocational class, students in half day culture class, half day textile class.

During the weekly textile class, Paridanm Yakup and his daughter taught their students hands-on skills.

Seeing that the students were weaving an imperfect piece of palzzi, Paridanm Yakup was very pleased. She hoped that more people would fall in love with this skill, because that was what passed the ancestral generations of the spirit of the Hei Ying Shan people.