Industry Information: Zhuhai'S First Textile Learning Hall Officially Opened

What is the process from cotton to a complete garment? The first manual textile learning hall in Zhuhai has officially opened recently. It is located in the centennial ancestral hall of the Tang family in Zhuhai. Traditional textile technology and ancient town culture blend together. The learning hall looks like a time machine, spreading the precious moments of the past.

Zhuhai High tech Zone invested 3.7 million yuan to carry out the conservation, repair, activation and utilization of Yuwo Tang Temple, and specially entrusted the useless brand team created by the famous Chinese designer Marco to plan and create a "useless manual textile learning hall", which integrates, collides, protects and inherits the profound cultural heritage of the ancient town of Tangjia with folk traditional handicrafts. "Yuwo Tang Ancestral Temple has a history of nearly 200 years. In the process of activation, how to integrate its past culture and the things it carries very well together, when I first conceived it, I thought of my own clothing and textile career." Ma Ke, the designer of the useless founder, said.

Located at Yuwo Tang Temple, Shanfang Road, the ancient town of Tang Family

Walk into the "Useless Handmade Textile Learning Hall" located in Yuwo Tang Temple, Shanfang Road, an ancient town of the Tang Dynasty. Cotton, linen, silk and wool must be equipped with special looms for textile dyeing and finishing. From initial raw materials to tool technology, to cutting, sewing, embroidery, dyeing and printing, you can fully appreciate the complete process of traditional handmade textile production; You can also see the clothing changes and folk customs of the Tang family and Lingnan area in the past century from the regular clothes of Lingnan officials in the Qing Dynasty, as well as the colorful clothes and casual clothes of different people. "Here, you can see the costumes of the local people of the Tang family in Zhuhai more than 100 years ago," said the relevant person in charge of the museum.

The process from cotton to making clothes

Traditional textile tools can be seen here

Every exhibit in the museum is made of natural materials, which can be degraded in the end; Each process is environmentally friendly and natural, and will not cause any pollution to the nature. In the process of hand weaving, the traditional Chinese concept of "harmony between man and nature" is reflected everywhere.

The museum displays the original plant dyes

Mark, the designer of the useless founder, told the reporter that he hoped to let more people know about the handmade textile with temperature and emotion in the past through this museum. After reading these long processes, he would understand that it was hard won and cherish it more. "Nowadays, people in cities often change their clothes. From this, I feel a great waste. Therefore, it is useless to stick to the traditional manual way to make fabrics, clothes and other textiles. It is actually a kind of transmission of treasure, not to be abandoned easily, but to be treasured and accompany our whole life," Mark said, "In fact, our current life cannot be separated from the accumulation of our predecessors and the edification of our living environment. I hope you don't think that tradition is very old, backward, and outdated. In fact, tradition also contains a lot of valuable things. Especially as a Chinese, it is also very necessary to understand our own nation, including every aspect of food, clothing, housing, and transportation."

Speaking of the name of the learning hall, Mark said that "inheritance" represents inheritance, "learning" represents learning and practice, and culture and history are inherited from generation to generation. When Zhuhai citizens go to review these handmade textiles, they will also find connections between people, between emotions, and between cultures. "The naming process was very tortuous. At that time, I also thought about what to call a museum or an exhibition hall. Later, when the idea of a lecture hall came out, my first feeling was that it was a museum“

It is reported that the useless manual textile learning hall is open from 10:00 to 19:00 on Tuesday to Sunday (closed on Mondays). During the Spring Festival, the hall is open normally except the New Year's Eve.

As a national historical and cultural town, Tangjiawan Town has a history of thousands of years since the establishment of Wenshun Township in the Tang Dynasty. In recent years, Zhuhai High tech Zone has attached great importance to the protection and inheritance of historical culture. Since 2015, it has been based on Tangjiawan Town, the main park, to build a pattern of Zhuhai cultural symbols, sort out traditional cultural resources, clarify traditional cultural genes, and discover traditional cultural values. From 2015 to 2020, the government of Zhuhai High tech Zone has invested 80 million yuan in repairing the three temples of Tangjia, Wangcishan houses 40 important ancient buildings, including Tangjia Ruizhi Temple, Huitong Moshi Ancestral Hall, Qi'ao Zhongshi Ancestral Hall, have been built, 9 village history halls, including Tangjia, Huitong, Qi'ao, 5 intangible cultural heritage inheritance bases, such as Mid Autumn Festival Song Festival, and a number of public cultural service venues, such as Huitong Film Hall, and are open for free in a normal manner.