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Known as “soft gold”, gambiered Canton gauze(香云纱) is the best silk fabric(布料) for qipao. It feels smooth and comfortable. It is easy to wash and dry, and also good for people's health.
Gambiered Canton gauze is the only silk fabric that's still hand-dyed using natural plants in the world today. It gets its colour from a yam(薯蓣) plant. The plant grows in Shunde, Guangdong. People call it shuliang.
The skill of dyeing gambiered Canton gauze has a history of more than 500 years. In 2008, it was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.
A master’s story
Ouyang Yongze is an inheritor of the dyeing skill of gambiered Canton gauze from Guangdong. The 50-year-old started learning the skill in 2017.
The dyeing includes 30 steps and is all done by hand with natural materials. “Shuliang, river mud, sunshine, and grass play important roles in the dyeing,” Ouyang told Teens.
To dye the fabric, workers put it in yam juice and then let it dry on the grass. Then, they put river mud on it to help the yam react fully. After washing and drying again, the fabric turns black!
Mastering the dyeing skill is not easy. Ouyang had to try many times before he could get the right density of yam juice.
Passing on the craft is also challenging. It can be tiring to work under the sun for eight hours a day. Only a few people work in that line of work, and the skilled masters are getting older. In light of this, Ouyang has worked hard to tie in other dyeing skills such as tie-dye and batik(蜡染). He believes all these can make the traditional skill more alive and get more young people to learn the skill.
Known as “soft gold”, gambiered Canton gauze(香云纱) is the best silk fabric(布料) for qipao. It feels smooth and comfortable. It is easy to wash and dry, and also good for people's health.
Gambiered Canton gauze is the only silk fabric that's still hand-dyed using natural plants in the world today. It gets its colour from a yam(薯蓣) plant. The plant grows in Shunde, Guangdong. People call it shuliang.
The skill of dyeing gambiered Canton gauze has a history of more than 500 years. In 2008, it was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.
A master’s story
Ouyang Yongze is an inheritor of the dyeing skill of gambiered Canton gauze from Guangdong. The 50-year-old started learning the skill in 2017.
The dyeing includes 30 steps and is all done by hand with natural materials. “Shuliang, river mud, sunshine, and grass play important roles in the dyeing,” Ouyang told Teens.
To dye the fabric, workers put it in yam juice and then let it dry on the grass. Then, they put river mud on it to help the yam react fully. After washing and drying again, the fabric turns black!
Mastering the dyeing skill is not easy. Ouyang had to try many times before he could get the right density of yam juice.
Passing on the craft is also challenging. It can be tiring to work under the sun for eight hours a day. Only a few people work in that line of work, and the skilled masters are getting older. In light of this, Ouyang has worked hard to tie in other dyeing skills such as tie-dye and batik(蜡染). He believes all these can make the traditional skill more alive and get more young people to learn the skill.
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