Nantong Yarn-dyed Native Cloth Skill

Nantong is a famous native cloth hometown in our country and its folk native cloth dyeing and weaving craft has a history of over 600 years.

Nantong native cloth dyeing and weaving craft is sophisticated and has distinct national characteristics. In terms of the representation manner and style, it shows very colorful regional characteristics, reflecting the particular customs, habits, living manner, individual characteristics and aesthetic taste of the local people.

The conservative and flaggy folk custom that Nantong people scrupulously follow traditions and have unsophisticated practice has resulted in imposing, stable traditional style of the native cloth. As for weaving, it has reserved the primitive,pure and profound old style. As for coloring, it is simple but elegant,and the pattern is refined and solemn, leaving plain and primitive beauty. For the decorative pattern, it uses traditional ants, willow twig, reed flower, sweet-scented osmanthus, fish scales, golden and silver thread grid etc. The composition of patterns is precise and generous and the appearance is delicate and pretty, emitting the primitive, quiet living atmosphere of northern Jiangsu countryside.

Roughly, Nantong native cloth is classified into two, namely the natural color native cloth and fancy native cloth. The yarn-dyed native cloth of fancy native cloth represents the essence and top achievement of Nantong native cloth dyeing and weaving craft. It is produced by traditional wood loom of multiple shuttles, and the patterns are all sourced from the local waterside scenery. The spinner gives full play to changes of yarn colors, drafting and skills in the limited loom, creating endless new types and new patterns.