Folk Art Of Dyeing And Weaving In Gaoyang: A World-Renowned Folk Art Feature

Gaoyang County, Hebei Province, is located in the North China Plain, located in the southeastern part of Baoding. This area is a famous cotton producing area in Hebei province. Gaoyang has the reputation of "textile town". It radiated the surrounding counties and provided rich soil for the development of Gaoyang handcraft dyeing and printing technology.

Folk arts and crafts in Gaoyang are popular folk arts and crafts popular in Gaoyang County and its surrounding counties and cities. It began in the late Ming Dynasty and flourished in the late Qing Dynasty. It has a history of more than 400 years and occupies an important position in the history of Chinese textile industry and the history of modern Chinese industry. The folk dyeing and weaving industry of Gaoyang went through the initial stage of the late Ming Dynasty, the flourishing period of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the decline of Japanese puppet rule and the transition period after the founding of new China.

As an important part of the traditional textile technology of the Chinese nation, the development of Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving technology is synchronized with the times, and it absorbs and integrates foreign textile technology and uses it for us. It has many kinds of technology, and the representative technology is divided into four types and ten items. The four major categories are spinning, dyeing, weaving, and folk arts. Ten items include cloth print, earth calendering technology, throwing woven cloth weaving cloth, jacquard weaving, soil bleaching and dyeing technology.

Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving technology has its own set of spinning, dyeing and finishing processes. Its products have distinct national folk art characteristics and practical value. In 1930s, textiles produced by "Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving techniques" accounted for 1/3 of the textile output in North China and exported to more than 20 countries and regions around the world. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, even during the "Cultural Revolution" period, Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving technology still maintained its complete production process and product export.

Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving industry has various forms, including family and workshop small-scale production modes, and modern industrial and commercial production modes such as modern factories, wiring houses, etc. Gaoyang folk printing and dyeing technology occupies an important position throughout North China and even the whole country. It is an excellent folk culture in North China, a microcosm of Chinese traditional textile culture and an important legacy of China's rural economy and culture. After the emergence of the mechanized mode, Gaoyang folk dyeing and weaving techniques will be replaced and urgently needed to be protected.