Bathed in the warm spring breeze, I walked along Wuai Lane in Suzhou, accompanied by a slight sense of crossing, and came to Li Jing's group fan studio - a hobby of idleness. The location of the leisure residence is excellent, with the famous garden "Art Garden" in Suzhou as the neighbor, and the former Weaving Bureau as a friend. "Choose Suzhou, one is that the craftsmanship here is complete, and the fans need to be made by many craftsmen, and various masters can be found here; One is that Suzhou is very livable, with a developed economy, a good cultural atmosphere, and a well-planned city. ”

"Leisure hobby" is allusion to Gao Lian's "Zunsheng Eight Notes" in the Ming Dynasty: "Yu is idle, elegant and ancient, the study of the ancients, and the training of Tang Yu; Good Gu Minqiu, Xuanni's teaching. Leisure is Li Jing's hobby, and it is also the soul of the fan she designed. The fan is an idle thing for idlers to play, it is a handicraft, the first pursuit of beauty, followed by practicality.

Fan maker Li Jing, post-85, designer, craftsman. Because he likes fans, and he can't buy what he is satisfied with on the market, he began to make it himself.

So, what is a fan? Many people may think that the fan is used by women, but it is not. The group fan, also known as the palace fan and the fan, originated in China, first appeared in the Shang Dynasty, when it was called the "barrier fan", the emperor went out to inspect the sun and shelter the wind and sand, and it was also a symbol of power and status.

After the Western Han Dynasty, fans began to be used to keep cool. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the feather fan was changed to silk, silk, silk and other fabrics in order to embellish embroidery paintings. Later, the fan became the darling of the literati and a carrier of artistic expression, used by both men and women.

Why is Li Jing so fascinated by the group fan? The fan has a deep connotation of traditional culture, we can see the scholars and ladies holding the fan in the paintings of the ancients, and many of the Song Dynasty paintings are fan surfaces, which are exquisite.

Although the sparrow is small, the five organs are complete, it is the master of the craft, and the silk fabric technology and furniture technology have a place in it, giving it great possibilities and room for change.

The fan is usually composed of the bone, handle, surface, tassel and other accessories, and the material and craftsmanship of each part are very different.

The main materials used in the fan handle are: bamboo, wood, tooth, and horn. The most popular is naturally bamboo. There are many kinds of bamboo, usually using the precious Xiangfei bamboo, Merlot bamboo, phoenix eye bamboo and the purple bamboo and jade bamboo that the literati have set their character as elegant since ancient times. When selecting materials, we consider not only the value of the material itself, but also its cultural connotation.

After carefully selecting the bamboo, the whole bamboo baking process is used to bake the bamboo into various forms: round, waist round, begonia-shaped, plum-shaped, rhombic flower-shaped, chrysanthemum-shaped, octagonal, autumn pear-shaped, plantain-shaped, sycamore-shaped, and hexagonal shape.

The wood is mostly selected from the more precious red sour branches, red sandalwood, and yellow pear. Ivory and horns are relatively rare in modern times, and they are generally redesigned and made with some old objects collected. Due to the abundance of materials, there are naturally more crafts involved, such as lacquer, carving, carving, branding, and inlay.

The fan surface is mainly silk fabrics, including silk, embroidery, silk, silk, Luo, silk, yarn, and Song brocade. Although they all belong to silk fabrics, they are very different and have their own characteristics.

Li Jing has put a lot of effort into silk fabrics. The so-called practice brings true knowledge, at first he took the design draft to the master to make, and the finished product was sometimes very ugly. So while communicating with the master, he seriously summarized and reflected on what the problem was.

Sometimes, the results are good, but the cost is too high, so I study and study again. He joked that he paid a lot of tuition for this, but all the efforts were worth it, and to this day, he is already familiar with the silk weaving process, and the masters can't fool him, and because he understands, the advice he gives to the masters, everyone will listen to it. It is necessary for designers to understand the production process, which not only helps them to make their own designs, but also allows them to better communicate with their masters, so that the design can be implemented quickly and perfectly.

In addition to studying handicrafts, he also collected many old embroidery pieces. One is to nourish the eyes and improve aesthetics. "Looking at this embroidery, you can tell at a glance that it is folk, the color is very gorgeous, red and green, but it looks good together. The person who made this work may be a little peasant girl who has never read, is illiterate, and does not understand aesthetics. But at that time, people's aesthetics were passed down orally from their mothers, and there was a heritage and an environment, and in the process of production, everyone would discuss with each other how to make it more beautiful, so the things that came out looked quite tasteful. Li Jing picked up an embroidery and said.

Second, we can study the expression techniques of people in the past through the old embroidery pieces, he said: "The same butterfly, the expression of embroidery and painting will be different, because some effects cannot be expressed." Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the color and shape. Different embroidery, the expression techniques are also different: some are outlining the shape, some are embroidering the color of the block, and some are embroidery->>