The art of wool: inheritance and innovation

The art of wool: inheritance and innovation

In ancient times, wool products is one of indispensable items in people’s life. Since the tang dynasty, wool products production and processing technology already quite mature, and got further development in song dynasty. At that time, people have been able to wool processing into a variety of exquisite, soft fabric, such as brocade, silk and textile, etc., these products are beautiful and practical, widely used by people.

Today, although production technology and processing technology of wool products have been greatly improved, but the traditional handmade still is the key to the production of high quality wool products. Many wool products of the production still need manual operation, such as sweaters, blankets and so on. And these artifacts, is not only a mode of production, but also a cultural heritage, represents a manual art essence and unique charm.

Traditional handmade methods not only keep the products quality and taste, and more importantly, it also represents a way of life and cultural inheritance. However, with the progress of science and technology, mechanical processing and production has become the main way of wool products processing. Mechanization processing while it is possible to improve the production efficiency, but also weaken the traditional handmade way represented by the cultural and artistic value.

In the face of this problem, some wool products manufacturers began to a combination of the traditional and modern, by means of science and technology to improve the efficiency and quality of traditional producing ways. For example, some enterprises to adopt numerical control machine and laser cutting equipment, processing wool fabric, ensure the quality of the product and quality. At the same time, some wool products manufacturers in the design and innovation has made a great effort, launched a lot of fashion and personality of wool products, such as printed sweaters, wool scarf and so on.

On the way of inheritance and innovation, wool products manufacturers continually explore and practice, tries to combine the advantages of traditional and modern, make wool products more in line with the requirements of modern and aesthetic. Wool of inheritance and innovation of art, not only represents a kind of cultural heritage, more importantly, it also represents a kind of innovation and the development way of thinking, for the traditional manual art has injected new vitality and energy.