Dingbian County, Shaanxi Province: One Piece Of Embroidery Knitting Leads To Millions Of Orders For Handicrafts

Shaanxi Women's Handicrafts Association, together with the pioneer brand of Chinese folk arts and cultural innovation "Wang's Handicrafts", recently held a training meeting for millions of orders in Dingbian County, Shaanxi Province. 30 "Qiaoniang" from Qiaodajie Folk Handicrafts Cooperative in Dingbian County participated in the training.

During the training, Wan Zhangjuan and Liu Shuxin, the production directors of "Wang's Handicraft", patiently explained and demonstrated to the "Qiaoniang" from the aspects of the handicrafts Little God of Wealth, the crochet method of the small fish lamp, the production process and the modeling combination. The "Qiaoniang" people listened attentively, studied hard, asked questions if they didn't understand, and helped each other. The colorful threads were woven into exquisite little gods of wealth and fish lanterns, demonstrating the "Qiaoniang"'s skillful skills and yearning for a better life.

Tian Shulian, the founder of Dingbian Qiaodajie Folk Handicraft Cooperative, said, "I hope to continue to drive more women to join our cooperative through the platform provided by the Shaanxi Women's Federation to inherit and develop intangible cultural heritage together. We will strictly control the quality, continue to cooperate with Wang's Handicraft, and let handicraft lovers in our county have a stable income."

The training lasts for 15 days. During the training, it mainly focuses on embroidery color matching, knitting stitch and other details. Traditional manual embroidery skills are the intangible cultural heritage of Dingbian County. In order to continue to promote the inheritance and development of Dingbian County's embroidery technology, Shaanxi Women's Handicrafts Association and "Wang's Handicrafts" signed millions of orders for handicraft works, which landed in Dingbian County Qiaodajie Cooperative, and "Wang's Handicrafts" provided free skills training, material distribution, finished product recycling and other one-stop employment services, Move the production line of the enterprise to the door of "Qiaoniang"'s home, so that "Qiaoniang" can truly transform "fingertip technology" into "fingertip economy".

Bai Li, Deputy Secretary General of Shaanxi Women's Handicraft Association, said: "The purpose of this million order training is to improve the skills and details of Sanqin Qiaoniang, enrich their spiritual and cultural life, and inject new vitality and power into traditional handicrafts. Next, Shaanxi Women's Handicraft Association will continue to input orders, so that 'Qiaoniang' can have a sustained and stable income in their spare time. It is hoped that more women will join Qiaodajie Cooperative, Inherit and develop our handicraft culture. " (Li Shikui and Liu Fei)