Original "Sketch Direct Weaving" Sichuan "Bamboo King" show with hands

In the “Chinese Elements” area of ​​the Expo Baosteel Grand Stage, the inheritors of Sichuan's intangible cultural heritage in turn laid down the “Taiwan and Taiwan” to showcase their skills. A bamboo entertainer from Muchuan County, Leshan City, was quite eye-catching. He only saw him picking, pressing, breaking, and fighting. Dozens of bamboo filaments, such as hair, flew in his familiar techniques. The clear and elegant "Invisible Goddess of Mercy" was completed. He is the master of bamboo weaving, Yin Chao, who has the reputation of “bamboo king of Sichuan”.

At the age of 5, many patterns can be produced. Sichuan's bamboo weaving techniques have a long history. Starting from the Ming Dynasty, bamboo handicrafts for daily use with geometric patterns in bold lines appeared here. In the 1950s and 1960s, people have been able to create 10,000 characters, eight-character flowers, five-star flowers, etc. on bamboo fans, pillows, and cushions. Folk amour motifs and simple auspicious words such as double happiness, full moon, and longevity.

Yin Chao said that his mother, Pan Cuihua, has a pair of such skilled hands. In the era when most people still needed to use knit paper to weave patterns, she could quickly weave regularity and beauty with her unique observations and calculations. pattern. Maybe it is her mother's brilliant talent. At the age of five, Yin Chao has been able to weave a lot of names and designs. When she was six years old, Yin Chao wondered if she would put her name on a fan and would just quietly get up at two or three o'clock in the morning with her parents. The kerosene lamp lit up the name, it was dawn, and she slept quietly. .

It is this stubbornness that gave birth to an epoch-making creation in the history of bamboo weaving more than 10 years later. After graduating from high school, Yin Chao, 17 years old, went home to farm and had more leisure time to engage in professional bamboo art creation. In 1982, Yin Chao spent 33 hours, completed a 73*32cm “Leshan Giant Buddha” using coordinate weaving, and the fineness of the bamboo wire used was 1/6 cm. It was a great cause in the bamboo industry and society at that time. The repercussions.

Original "Sketch Direct Weave Method"

Let Yin Chao lay the status of the bamboo industry, or his original “drawing straight knitting method”. Speaking of the experience of that period of creation, Yin Chao said that it was indeed twists and turns.

The success of the "Leshan Giant Buddha" caused Yin Chao's reflection on the original coordinate knitting method. This method is extremely inefficient and difficult to learn. How can we improve knitting efficiency and speed?

After repeated practice, Yin Chao tried the "size control method." This method is based on the principle that the size on the drawing corresponds to or is proportional to the size of the woven product, the design efficiency is increased by 5 to 10 times, and the weaving speed is also doubled. However, with the progress of bamboo weaving from common daily necessities, the requirements for the fineness of bamboo filaments are getting higher and higher, from 1/6 cm to 1/8, 1/20...and even 1/30 cm. The landscapes, figures, flowers and birds and calligraphy works are all displayed on bamboo fabrics. The “size control method” obviously cannot meet the requirements.

Until one night, he saw two cute pandas from a picture film, and he intended to copy it as a bamboo theme. When he set up a glass brick and made a temporary copy box, put the manuscript under it and put a piece of white paper on it, he suddenly "flashed a flash of light," assuming that the pattern on the picture was a design draft and the white paper on it. For bamboo products, no matter how complicated the pattern is, weaving is very simple. Yin Chao jumped up excitedly. The "drawing and direct weaving method" that has been widely used for more than 20 years was born. Series of bamboo knitting craftsmanship came out one after another. The bamboo weaving process has entered a new period of development.