The specific production process of Xiangyun yarn is complicated:

Mulberry silk silk → refining → soaked in water 1 time→ sprinkled with water 6 times→ sealed water 6 times→ boiled silk 1 time→ sealed water 12 times→ boiled silk 1 time→ sealed water 1 time→ rolled silk → across the river mud → washed → sealed water 1 time→ sun-dried→ foggy → stenter → whole assembly.

Sunburn. Press the bamboo pole and expose the yarn to the sun on the turf until it dries. The juice evaporates, and the pigment stays on the surface, creating a dark and light color on the fragrant cloud yarn.

Sprinkle with water. Sweep the sun-dried yarn with water, then dry it, repeat dozens of times, and deepen the color.

Boiled silk. In order to promote the silk to absorb the juice, it is then steamed in a copper pot and repeated nine times.

Over the black. The river mud is applied to the yarn to allow the iron sulfide in the mud to react chemically with the tannins in the potatoes.

Wash the mud. Wash off the river mud, expose to the sun until dry, and the silk nirvana is reborn, becoming the deepest and smoothest fragrant cloud yarn in the world.

After more than 30 processes, due to the particularity of production and processing, there will be a small number of black spots, red spots and white marks on the fabric.

There are also two standard configurations in the sunning field: sunning and river chong. The area of the sunning field depends on the size of the sunning field, the surface is flat, the bottom is covered with mud, covered with fine sand, and the turf is planted.

Grass species to use the local commonly known as "crawling mouse" native grass species, crawlers are strong and durable, when the silk boil is placed on the turf to dry, it can not only keep the silk boil clean, but also make the silk boil have a certain humidity under high temperature exposure, which is convenient for fully absorbing the potato water, and achieves the effect of soft and shiny finished product.

In addition to the silt deposited at the bottom of the river for drying sage, a clean water source is also a necessary condition for yarn washing.

The entire process is done by hand, which is a heavy manual labor and is affected by sun exposure. The drying season is usually from the beginning of April to the end of October every year. Among them, from July to early August (the small summer, the great heat, and the beginning of autumn in the lunar calendar), due to the strong sunshine and high temperature, the dried yarn will become hard and brittle, so it is not suitable to start work. After the resumption of work in mid-August to the end of October, after November due to the dry monsoon in the north, it is no longer suitable for sunbathing.

In the summer of Guangdong, the enthusiasm is like fire, and the workers and masters of the drying plant soak the water over and over again, spread the cloth, and collect the bamboo poles..... The physical exertion is as great as the high-intensity aerobic exercise of fitness exercises, so in the drying field, tea, mung bean soup, porridge, pickled vegetables..... Always have something to eat to replenish your stamina when you are hungry. And because it is heavy physical labor, I can't overeat. The workers who dry the sylvestris carry out high-intensity labor every day, and they are all capable.

Each piece of cloth is 14-16 meters and can only make 3-4 pieces of clothing, so almost all of the Xiangyun yarn is a limited edition, and each piece of Xiangyun yarn is magically endowed with a soul, which is the condensation of all the sunshine, rivers, meadows, and labor. Integrating all kinds of precious and unique time and place, the whole process is full of rituals like primitive artistic creation.

Lin Yan knows that such a sense of ritual is too important, which can remind her that in addition to life, there are also poetry and distance. And those fabrics that are quickly mass-produced are less heavy than a little time, so the handmade Xiangyun yarn contains the painstaking efforts of the workers and is incomparably precious.

The biggest preciousness of Xiangyun yarn is that it has been handed down for hundreds of years of traditional handicrafts, with silk as the embryo, dyed and finished with plants and minerals, condensing the essence of heaven and earth, very expensive, can be called the "soft gold" of Chinese fabrics.