As a person who grew up. Xiangyun yarn? As a city of origin, I must give you a wave of Amway? Xiangyun yarn? Clothing. This is probably one of the few fabrics in the world that rely on pure original plants and pure hand-woven dyeing. From coloring to fixing, it takes a lot of time and manpower. It takes at least half a month to dye a piece of cloth, which is much more difficult than other fabrics.

Clothes made of Xiangyun yarn are sold all over the country, but the price is very expensive. A simple Xiangyun gauze dress costs thousands of dollars. If the colors are richer, the printing is more complicated and the design is more exquisite, tens of thousands are also common. Most people who don't know the history of Xiangyun yarn will think that such a special fabric should be produced in a silk-weaving province like Zhejiang. In fact, Xiangyun yarn is a local product of Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province. Almost only Shunde people can make such a perfect fabric.

You don't believe me? If you don't believe me, read on. Because of Shunde's unique geographical environment, it took more than 600 years to slowly accumulate such a special Xiangyun yarn production process.

First of all, the raw materials of Xiangyun yarn are generally raw silk materials woven from silk spit by local sericulture. After the raw silk to be dyed is finished, it is necessary to prepare a very important item to achieve the dyeing effect. This thing is the rhizome of Chinese yam. After soaking raw silk with Dioscorea cirrhosa juice, one side of raw silk was coated with unpolluted river mud from Shunde local river. After fermentation and air-drying, the raw silk is washed and air-dried, and softened with grass to obtain the finished product.

In every link, it is best to use local specialties, such as local silkworm spinning, local silk weaving, local yam juice dyed by local silk, and local silk wrapped in river mud. Now let's talk about the making process of Xiangyun yarn in detail.

Step 1: Soak the prepared raw silk with Dioscorea cirrhosa juice for many times.

Generally speaking, blank silk must be woven from pure silk. Cut them into 20-meter sections and set them aside. Crushing Dioscorea cirrhosa and soaking in water for four times to obtain four kinds of Dioscorea cirrhosa juice with different concentrations. Then put the prepared raw silk into the first concentrated Dioscorea cirrhosa juice, soak and stir evenly, then take it out and dry it, spray the Dioscorea cirrhosa juice for the second time, then dry it, spray it again and dry it again, and repeat it many times. Then put the silk blank in the third yam juice for half an hour, take it out and dry it, soak it again and dry it, cook it in warm water of about 50 degrees for about 5 minutes after repeated times, and then take it out and dry it. Finally, the blank silk is soaked in the fourth water for half an hour, repeatedly soaked and dried, boiled again, soaked for half an hour after air drying, taken out and folded after air drying.

Step 2: Prepare the raw silk dipped in Dioscorea cirrhosa before it gets muddy.

Spread the blank silk in a completely cool place, and spread the fine and clean sediment pulled out of the river evenly on the upward side. As long as there is a thin layer, after painting, fold the blank silk in half and lift it to the flat ground to dry for about 40 minutes. Finally, these blank silks covered with mud were transported to the river for cleaning.

Step 3: Dip in Dioscorea cirrhosa juice for the last time and dry it.

Wash the blank silk of river mud, spread it on the grass to dry, then soak it in yam juice for half an hour, and then take it out to dry on the grass. When the sun is going down, the blank silk absorbs the dew on the grass, softens slowly, and then folds up. This is the finished product.

We call it the whole production process? Three steaming, nine boiling and eighteen baking? The whole process lasted for half a month, and the made Xiangyun yarn was tough and smooth. There are two colors on the front and back of a piece of cloth, one is black and the other is colored or brown. The clothes made are very cool to wear, will not stick to the body, have a drooping feeling, and have a particularly quaint aesthetic feeling. This is called fabric? Soft gold? .

Now there is a Xiangyun yarn museum in Lunjiao Town, Shunde, and most of the production of Xiangyun yarn is completed in Lunjiao. If you are interested, you can travel to Shunde and experience the production process of Xiangyun yarn.