Dongyang Specialty Mat

    Dongyang, Zhejiang, one of the three major production bases straw mat. Straw mat, a long history of production, quantities of better. metal curtain rods

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    Dongyang Grass kinds of silk began in the early Qing Dynasty, dating back 260 years of history has been.



    Alpine Rush (soil names Rattus) is one of Cyperaceae, Ye was tubular, there are 1.67 meters long or more. Planting Alpine Rush by sub-roots approach, namely, to take the first sub-Bai Cheng Po left a number of kinds of Cong, by planting method was equidistant straight mold insert Daejeon. Grass filament main product is the mat work, followed by straw hat, pillow mat, and sofa chair cushion. Introduction Alpine Rush, the annual output of mat about 8 million copies. At the same time with the short grass made of straw hats, but also sold to neighboring districts.



    Mato anti-Army, Shacheng head, Hui Siu-tong, River West, stone homes Tong, Guan Qiao, Bota radius of dozens of villages, the old liberated areas of grass silk production. Qianxiang in 1975, triple, MA house three towns in 1981 Huangtian trafficking, Hongtang, Wang Tau Hom, South Stream and other four towns are also developing grass silk production. Year of the history of the individual leather seats along with an area of over mu-screen rock, south on the lake, Youth, Xu Township house and so on.



    Grass wire of different length, use different. A long woven straw mat, a short in the 60's and early 70s utilization were woven into hats, pillows cushion chair seats and sofas.



    The preparation of a straw mat, straw mat, a traditional tool rack, buttons wood, three kinds of winches. Usually made with pine straw mat frame, the shape of "Well", which a high degree of 1.3 to 1.5 meters, which support the mat warp. Buttons with a solid smooth ebony wood made in the middle by 2.5 cm equidistant drilling slot, mats warp intervals from each hole and through the slot, so that when you insert the weft woven straw mat system can be cross-ram tight. Winch was the foot of textile warp spinning wheel. After scraping before weaving hemp, Breaking hemp, spinning line, the whole grass, grass pants off, behind a series of warp preparation. They need to tie in with traditional weaving method, one-tim grass, one person seat. After the woven straw mat after trimming, drying row of seats and seat three processes.



    In past, Dongyang Scirpus grass mats to raw materials, method of weaving seats are available on its latitude and longitude Scirpus grass, woven into the shape Ruanxi Ye grumble, manufacturing, complicated procedures. After the introduction of Alpine Rush woven hemp through seats, but the warp less Ximian loose.



Since 1960, planted the grass seed in Ningbo thin, warp density is also changed by the thin buckle buckle, the width of 118.8 centimeters (36 inches) of the mat, warp from 92 to 108, farmers have also increased a row of seats process, significantly improve the quality of straw mat, the standard of quality seats to catch up with Ningbo seats. In recent years, the system of travel seats and pillows seats are "line through the" seats, is quoted Japan's weave seats and replaced silk grass cloth seam crimping the edge, enabling the machine knitting, fashion beautiful light.