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The important value of willow weaving

Time:

2022-12-31

  The art of willow weaving has been developed in Linshu County for more than 800 years and has been passed down and innovated by generations of folk artists, becoming a widely representative form of folk art with a widely recognised practical, aesthetic and social value. Through the innovation of weaving techniques, many different types of products have been created in the form of weaving structures and products to meet the production and living needs of the masses, and at the same time, the folk art form of willow weaving has also developed considerably.
  The willow weaving technique is a folk technique developed by the working people over a long period of time and is the result of their wisdom. It has the following characteristics.
  1. As a purposeful practical and aesthetic creative activity, the willow weaving technique is characterised by skilled, specialised techniques, the mastery and use of raw materials such as wicker and preparation tools, and is an important means of understanding and making use of the laws of nature.       
  2. The popular nature of wickerwork techniques. Willow weaving skills are created and developed in long-term labour practices, and the process of creating and passing on each craft is formed on the basis of common labour.
  3、Willow weaving products are made from a wide range of raw materials, making full use of the characteristics of ductile plants, focusing on colour and texture, and pursuing naturalness, reflecting the simple, unadorned and sincere character of the working population.
  4, compared with the general traditional art, willow weaving modelling concept of subjectivity more prominent, is the folk practical technology and folk arts and crafts, but also the organic combination of practicality and aesthetics.

The main weaving methods include threading, seizing, twisting, tying, braiding, weaving, winding and twisting. The flexible wicker in the hands of the weavers can be described as a lively leap, and the sight of the peasant women talking and working is reminiscent of the scene in the language textbook Baiyangdian in secondary school, which is both admirable and exciting and joyful.


Linyi is currently one of the world's leading producers of wickerwork and one of the main producers of wicker products in the country. Willow weaving is the city's traditional advantageous export commodity, with products exported to more than 120 countries and regions in Europe, America, the Middle East and Africa. Linyi development willow industry has the following advantages.


Linyi is currently one of the world's leading producers of wickerwork and one of the main producers of wicker products in the country. Willow weaving is the city's traditional advantageous export commodity, with products exported to more than 120 countries and regions in Europe, America, the Middle East and Africa. Linyi development willow industry has the following advantages.


willow weave storage baskets should avoid long exposure to the sun, strong sunlight exposure will cause oxidation of willow fibres, fading, brittle, long time not used, please pay attention to moisture, mothproof, the best in the black sealed plastic bag for preservation, when used again still shiny as new.


The art of willow weaving has been developed in Linshu County for more than 800 years and has been passed down and innovated by generations of folk artists, becoming a widely representative form of folk art with a widely recognised practical, aesthetic and social value. Through the innovation of weaving techniques, many different types of products have been created in the form of weaving structures and products to meet the production and living needs of the masses, and at the same time, the folk art form of willow weaving has also developed considerably.


The main weaving methods include threading, seizing, twisting, tying, braiding, weaving, winding and twisting. The flexible wicker in the hands of the weavers can be described as a lively leap, and the sight of the peasant women talking and working is reminiscent of the scene in the language textbook Baiyangdian in secondary school, which is both admirable and exciting and joyful.


willow weave storage baskets should avoid long exposure to the sun, strong sunlight exposure will cause oxidation of willow fibres, fading, brittle, long time not used, please pay attention to moisture, mothproof, the best in the black sealed plastic bag for preservation, when used again still shiny as new.