Carpet

Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote in his poem The Red Thread Blanket, "The ground does not know that cold people want to be warm, so don't take people's clothes as lichens.". According to literature records, from the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were more and more kinds of carpets, and the carpets were often made of cotton, wool, hemp and paper rope. The woven carpets produced in China use high strength yarn strands as warp yarn and ground weft yarn, and the colored coarse wool weft yarn is tied into the warp yarn according to the pattern to form plush, which is then woven through the process of shearing and brushing. Its front is densely covered with towering plush, with solid texture and good elasticity. In 1966, a cotton blanket was unearthed in Lanxi, Zhejiang Province. It is 2.51 meters long and 1.18 meters wide. It is plain weave, fluffy on both sides, flat and thick. After identification, the material used is straw cotton fiber. This cotton carpet was woven in the Southern Song Dynasty. This is the earliest cotton blanket so far. It can be seen that the carpet weaving process had reached a high level at that time.