http://www.purpleculture.net/ en Copyright (c) 2026 Purple Culture purple@purpleculture.net (Purple Culture) purple@purpleculture.net (Purple Culture) Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:31:34 +0800 Purple Culture News RSS Feed 1440 http://www.purpleculture.net/oral-histories-of-chinese-folk-arts-and-crafts-chinese-brocade-p-12501 http://www.purpleculture.net/oral-histories-of-chinese-folk-arts-and-crafts-chinese-brocade-pr-12501 Tujia brocade, woven by the people of China's Tujia national minorityI, is an ancient and rare folk art. Known as Xilankapu in the Tujia language, where Xilan means "bedcover" and Kapu means "flower", it refers to "a bedcover brocaded with flowers". As a traditional handicraft of the Tujia people, Xilankapu is woven lengthwise with red, blue and black cotton threads, and crosswise with cotton threads of various colors or silk threads. The whole weaving process is finished on an ancient waist loom using only the weaver's deft hands plus a needle-like tool made of ox horn. Tujia brocade boasts a long history It has evolved from ancient fabrics to Cong cloth, through Lan'gan fine cloth, Ban cloth, and Xidong cloth, to the Tujia brocade of the present. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Tujia brocade came into full bloom, with its colors and patterns ranging from 100 to 200 types.

]]> purple@purpleculture.net (Purple Culture) http://www.purpleculture.net/oral-histories-of-chinese-folk-arts-and-crafts-chinese-brocade-p-12501 Mon, 28 May 2012 23:57:26 +0800 59.60 USD 12501 1.4000 Central Compilation and Translation Press 3 12052802 http://www.purpleculture.net/images/large/201201/kQX87U1L_LRG.jpg