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#Gold brocade full
The layout of the pattern is full and rich, with large blocks of yellow, red, and blue clashing together in glorious golden color.Ĭloud brocade is divided into four categories: Zhijin (织金), Kujin (库锦), Kuduan(库缎), and Zhuanghua(妆花), the first three of which can be produced by modern machines, while “Zhuanghua”, the most colorful of the cloud brocade fabrics, is a unique weaving technique that still cannot be replaced by modern machines. Nanjing cloud brocade is also called ” Tian Yi (天衣)”, which was made for the emperors, empresses, and royalty, so it naturally has a distinctive cultural imprint of the court. According to some sources, when the silk weaving industry was booming, more than 300,000 people in Nanjing made a living in silk-related industries, producing millions of pieces of brocade annually, creating the largest handicraft industry in Nanjing at that time. In the Qing dynasty, the Nanjing cloud brocade industry developed to the peak, the government set up in Nanjing Jiangning weaving bureau, the focus of weaving is basically high-grade fabrics, is the main weaving department of the imperial satin.Īt the same time, the private weaving industry was not idle. The emperor a dragon robe, the basic time to spend two years. In the skills, the Ming dynasty developed the “ Zhuanghua (妆花)” weaving techniques, and will be used to yarn, Luo (罗), Chou (绸), Juan (绢), Rong (绒) and other different textures of fabrics. The Ming and Qing dynasties inherited the traditions of the Yuan dynasty and established government-run weaving institutions in Nanjing. Kublai, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, set up the “East and West Weaving and Dyeing Bureau” in Nanjing, which specialized in weaving satin and silk for the royal family and the officials of the Yuan Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolians were very interested in gold-decorated fabrics and they used real gold to decorate official clothes, making the “gold woven with silver” cloud brocade stand out.
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In this way, the silk weaving industry in Nanjing has a history of 1600 years. In the 13th year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (417), the court set up a brocade office near the banks of the Qinhuai River, marking the official birth of cloud brocade. The common pattern formats of cloud brocade include group flower, scattered flower, full flower, twisted branch, folded branch, bat, peony, fish, pomegranate, peach, dragon, phoenix, unicorn, river & cliff, sea, Ruyi cloud (如意云) and so on. This article will share the history, characteristics of Chinese silk crafts: the Nanjing Yun brocade.Īt the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Liu Yu destroyed the Later Qin and moved the craftsmen workers to Nanjing, where advanced production techniques were brought to the south from Xi’an and the silk weaving industry developed rapidly. The three famous Chinese brocades are cloud brocade, Shu brocade (蜀锦), and Song brocade (宋锦), and Nanjing cloud brocade is a collection of the art of weaving silk craft of all generations, ranking the first, represents the highest achievement of Chinese silk weaving, and is the brilliant crystallization of Chinese silk culture. In the ancient silk fabric, “ brocade (Jin, 锦)” is the fabric representing the highest level of technology. This traditional hand weaving technique, which relies on human memory to weave, still cannot be replaced by modern machines.
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Today, the traditional characteristics and unique skills of cloud brocade are still maintained, and the traditional jacquard wooden machine weaving has been retained. Nanjing Cloud Brocade (云锦, Yunjin) is a traditional Chinese silk craft that dates back to 417 and has a history of 1,600 years, known as “inch of brocade, inch of gold”.