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Brocade of the Tujia people: weaving together dreams and reality

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01.Martial Character in General's Costume with Small Flags Sticking from the Back ,Shadow puppet,...
It is a brocade of the Tujia Nationality. The General History of the Ming Dynasty calls it "striped cloth." In the Song Dynasty they called it "brook cloth" and "brook-cave facing." Tujia brocade is made by waist weaver. It takes yarn as warp and silk as weft. The weaving method is "interweaving the intermittent warp and incessant weft."

TuJia Brocade also named XiLanKaPu was used in imperial palace in Qin and Han Dynasties. It is famous for its exquisite skill, live type, intensive country and traditional features. In TuJia language," XiLan" means "bedcover" and "KaPu" means "flower". So, XiLanKaPu is bedcover brocaded with flower. With colorful type, symmetrical thread and durable, it is precious art merged practice and appreciation.
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