Tool weaving

Author: Zhang Ying
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: "Woven Utensils" collects Tibetan utensils, Tibetan furniture, ritual objects and musical instruments, and woven artworks. The selected utensil works are predominantly made of stone, wood, bamboo, bone, pottery, and other materials. The variations in utensil styles have become an invisible feature of regional culture. The artifacts unearthed from Kangduka demonstrate that the ancestors of Tibetans had already mastered the technology of pottery-making and began to develop their unique aesthetic concepts over 4,000 years ago. This concept laid the foundation for the later development of Tibetan utensil culture. The weaving techniques selected in this book are mainly wool weaving. The various forms of wool weaving art differ in weaving methods and processes and are widely practiced in rural Tibet. The stitching generally falls into two categories: one is the patterned stitching at the edges, and the other is decorative pattern stitching. One category of stitching artworks in this book features threads of different colors intersecting left, right, up, and down to form triangles or other shapes, creating a special artistic effect that cannot be compared with weaving. These works all reflect the spiritual pursuit formed by the Tibetan working people through long-term production processes.