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Textile products are perishable, so historians have a hard time finding the exact beginnings of weaving. Only very few woven fabrics are still present today, since there are several elements that can damage and deteriorate the materials, like insects, erosion, fire and climatic situations. Researchers have found that some fabrics maintain its condition remarkably well in cool and sealed areas. In other times, honored people are adorned with blankets in order to distinguish them. They will be sitting or standing on their blankets, and sometimes even raise the blankets to accord for their honored status. The use of blankets is also practiced to represent how wealthy a particular individual is. Some particular places in China were actually quite popular for the production of some distinctive woven bamboo products, such as Hubei provinces, Shengxian, Dongyang, Jiang an of Sichuan province, Hunan, and Anji of the Zhejian province. Based on the records found in the Republic of China which date back to the Qing Dynasty, the Chinese place that was richest in bamboos and its products was Rui an County. Provide enough yarn to slip the hook back on using two inches to loosen the end fibers. Joining the Fibers You can overlap the wool some inches just over the fibers to catch and twist into the leader. Let the twist run into the joined fibers. You can add more twist by turning the spindle before you make new lengths of yarn. Lazy lines Moreover, the women of Navajo even discovered a certain pause in their techniques which somehow came up with what they referred to as lazy lines . These lazy lines are merely diagonal lines that are made across the horizontal wefts. After some time, a lot of weavers were already doing this particular add-on to their certain technique in order to produce terraced lines and some other design elements. Moreover, patterns from the North were slightly modified with some additional weft strands. Basic weaves To date, the weave that is most commonly used is the diagonal weave. People and various manufacturers love this particular weave because it creates a wonderful series of parallel lines that run down the entire length of the weave in a diagonal direction.
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