| Description |
Hemp textile weaving tools include simple tools for preparing flax fibers such as mortar, rolling board, fiber collection reel and complex weaving tools such as spinning molds, eye molds, and weaving frames ( The frame is made of I-shaped wood; the comb; the loom is made up of 6 parts: the yarn winding shaft; the yarn winding shaft; back tie). The process of creating a Lùng Tám brocade, from growing flax until forming a brocade product, must go through 41 completely manual steps such as choosing fields, preparing land; Drills; taking care of plants; tree cutting; tree classification; drying; Stripping; pounding fibers; fiber splicing; spinning reel; yarn collecting and removing reel; boil fibers; fiber annealing; yarn washing; boil white fibers with beeswax; rolling; remove the white thread, etc. Having good flax thread, the weaver carries out the steps of arranging the warp thread, hooking the thread into the comb, putting the thread into the wooden board, pulling the thread into the frame, weaving the fabric, soaking the newly woven fabric in kitchen ash, washing fabric, drying raw fabric, rolling raw fabric, making dyes, dyeing fabric, washing dyed fabric, drying fabric, rolling fabric, drawing, beeswax printing, dyeing after beeswax painting, drying fabric, dipping fabric in water boiling, cutting fabric, joining fabric, embroidering patterns on products, classifying, packaging and selling products. Techniques such as: Making yarn; Indigo dyeing; Beeswax painting and weaving of the Lùng Tám people have become "treasures" of the Hmong people here. All stages are mainly undertaken by women. Fabric color is natural, from trees, tubers, and forest leaves. They weave using belt looms. They avoid men from coming close when women stretch the thread into the frame because the thread breaks and is threaded wrongly. The main product is brocade from linen. Brocade is then created into products such as costumes, formal wear, and souvenirs. In rituals to relieve drought, protect family, etc they use linen. |
