In the Song Dynasty poet Ai's "Kapok Poetry", he once described the vivid scene of Li women's textile: "The car turns the lights, the thunder and autumn whirls the snow, and the half-moon night is arched; It will be warm when you die at night, and the loom weaves women all year round. " The four major processes of spinning, weaving, dyeing and embroidery of the Li nationality have their own characteristics. Women use simple tools (looms) to weave products with exquisite patterns, such as Li Mian, Li Lian, Li Dan, tube skirts, printed cloth, headscarves and so on. The pattern is characterized by straight lines, parallel lines, triangles, squares and circles. 100 kinds of exotic flowers and herbs with decorative value and unique national style. The main patterns are "Fishing and Hunting Farming Map", "Kistu", "Harvest Tu Tu" and "Wedding Map". The colors are generally red, yellow, black, white, green, cyan, etc. The colors are harmonious, exquisite and novel. Tactile dyeing is a unique dyeing method of Li nationality. First, the warp is tied into a pattern, and then dyed and woven into barrel cloth. Shuang Mianxiu has the best embroidery technique, which is generally used in women's wear. Most patterns are hand-embroidered, so there is no need to describe them. Some embroideries are inlaid with gold foil, silver foil, mica, feathers, shells, beads, copper coins and so on. , more colorful and more elegant. Some exquisite Li Jin, Li Mu and Li Dan embroidered barrel skirts, headscarves and flower ribbons with distorted and exaggerated lines are elegant, unique and colorful, which are very attractive. They have become unique tourist handicrafts in Hainan, selling well at home and abroad, enjoying a good reputation and being favored by Chinese and foreign guests. Li nationality is represented by woven cotton, with exquisite patterns and mottled refutation. There are carpets, cloth towels, belts, skulls, backpacks, skirts and other styles; Folk bamboo weaving takes mangosteen as the material, and after complicated processes such as chopping, scraping and brushing, it is made into bamboo handicrafts with complete varieties, suitable for viewing and practical use.
It uses the ancient method of rope recording to change the color of pattern into programming language and then weave it on the machine. This technology is very demanding, in fact, it is a creative design process of storing pattern programs with lines as raw materials. He should not only calculate the "seconds measurement" of the pattern according to the specific specifications of the fabric, but also show the delicate changes of the pattern on each thread, and according to the rules of the pattern, blend the complex colors to the maximum extent and weave it into a program language flower book that can be woven on the machine and read by weavers.