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Who invented the loom?
The loom was invented by Huang Daopo, a famous cotton weaver at the end of Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty.

Huang Daopo was admired by the people for popularizing textile technology and tools, and was honored as the ancestor of the cloth industry in Qing Dynasty. During Yuan Zhen's reign? She reformed the textile technology she learned after living in Yazhou (now Hainan Island) for more than 30 years and made a series of strings. Playing, spinning and weaving tools (such as stirring? Cars, arches, three-axis pedal spinning wheels, etc. ), greatly improving the spinning efficiency at that time.

In weaving, she used the wrong yarn, color matching, heald and flower technology to weave the famous black mud quilt, which promoted the development of cotton textile technology and cotton textile industry in Songjiang area, making Songjiang once the center of cotton textile industry in China, and played a great role in promoting the development of cotton planting and textile technology at that time.

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China is the birthplace of textile industry. More than 200 beautifully woven and colorful silk and linen fabrics unearthed from Mawangdui No.1 tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province show that people mastered quite advanced textile technology more than 2,000 years ago. During the Song Dynasty, the textile industry in the mainland gradually developed. 1 1 century (mid-Northern Song Dynasty) In order to meet people's daily needs, Hainan Island began to grow cotton on a large scale.

There are many kinds of cotton fabrics produced in Hainan Island, with fine weavers, and the quality and color rank first in the country. Huang Daopo came to Hainan Island under such a specific historical condition. She works at sunrise and rests at sunset. In their common working life and communication, she worked hard to learn and master the local advanced cotton textile technology.

Thanks to the careful teaching of Li compatriots and Huang Daopo's diligent study, she learned and became familiar with various cotton and knitting techniques. In practice, Huang Daopo also absorbed the advantages of his hometown weaving technology and gradually became a skilled textile expert.

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