Huang Daopo Enters the Modern Textile Showcase: New Textile Technologies, Processes, and Equipment: New Textile Technologies, Processes, and Equipment

Author: Ji Guibiao
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: China is an ancient civilization with centuries of history and one of the earliest countries in the world to produce textiles. It is renowned as the "Kingdom of Garments." In the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, a peasant woman from Shanghai's Songjiang County, Huang Daopo, made significant innovations and improvements to the existing textile techniques. She created a set of tools for weeding, plucking, spinning, and weaving, as well as a set of techniques for twisting yarn, color matching, and weaving with multiple threads.