| Description |
The craft of Sedge mat weaving in the Can Duoc district appeared in the 17th - 18th centuries with two popular local materials: bamboo and jute. There are two types of sedge: saltwater sedge and freshwater sedge. Jute is used to create warp and foot threads. The walking frame (walking comb) is the most important part of the mat-weaving loom. Before weaving, people shake, turn, and tie the jute fibers (warp, foot) to form the warped surface on the loom. When weaving mats, two people are needed: one person sets the frame and one person spins the thread. Each type of mat has different weaving technique requirements. Weaving techniques include: weaving plain mats and weaving floral mats (printed flowers and woven flowers). Plain mat: yarn cleaning technique - the person cleaning the yarn sequentially interlaces one base strand, and one tip strand, reversing each other, breaking the original cover, and so on until the product is completed. Printed flower mat: A dry, smooth mat placed on a flat surface and fixed to the four corners. Place the printing frame on the mat, use a bristle brush or color brush, and then sweep it onto the printing frame, the color will be printed on the mat. When the printing mat color is dry, steam absorption (cold steaming) is done to let the printing color absorb and adhere tightly to the sedge. Weaving flower mats: The technique is to interweave between dyed and white silk sedges as the background. Some types of woven flower mats are woven mats, border-striped mats, fine-striped mats, mother-striped mats. Weaving mats is the most difficult technique of weaving jacquard mats. The artisan uses the weaving technique of pressing the legs, cutting the legs, and connecting the legs of the weaver in coordination with the person cleaning the sedge so that the color of the sedge sinks or emerges on the white background, therefore it can create patterns that the artist has designed. There are three lever motifs: picture lever, letter lever, and pattern lever. |
