Wickerwork is one of the traditional folk handicrafts in China with a long history and rich cultural connotations. The development history of wickerwork in China can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago, and it didn't rise until the last decades of the 20th century, and it gradually became a foreign exchange earning project in some parts of China.
The production process of wickerwork is relatively simple, but it requires superb knitting skills and rich imagination. Generally speaking, the production of wickerwork needs to go through many processes, such as cutting, moistening, twisting, picking, weaving and tying, before it can be made into various exquisite wickerwork artifacts. Wickerwork products are rich in shapes and colors, and can be made into various practical furniture items, such as wickerwork baskets, wickerwork cages, wickerwork chairs, and elegant decorations, such as wickerwork flowers and wickerwork garden decorations.
The Inheritance Significance of wickerwork's Skills
As a purposeful practical and aesthetic creative activity, wickerwork's skill is characterized by mastering and using wicker and other raw materials and weaving tools with skilled and specialized skills, which is an important means to understand and utilize the laws of nature. Wickerwork's skills are produced and developed in the long-term labor practice, and the creation process and circulation process of each handicraft are formed on the basis of * * * *.
Wickerwork products have a wide range of raw materials, making full use of the characteristics of tough plants, paying attention to color and texture, and pursuing nature, which embodies the simplicity, simplicity and sincerity of working people. Compared with the general traditional art, wickerwork's modeling concept is more subjective, which is an organic combination of folk practical technology and folk arts and crafts, and also an organic combination of practicality and aesthetics.
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