Proceedings of the 2018 5th International Conference on Education, Management, Arts, Economics and Social Science (ICEMAESS 2018)

Research on Straw and Willow Plaiting in Shandong and Traditional Craft

Authors
Fenghua Xia, Wei Pan, Xiaowen Bian, Miaomiao Cui, Liyan Gao
Corresponding Author
Fenghua Xia
Available Online November 2018.
DOI
10.2991/icemaess-18.2018.183How to use a DOI?
Keywords
straw and willow plaiting; folk custom; traditional craft
Abstract

Straw and willow plaiting is a kind of traditional handicraft technique to plait handicraft works or household items with natural materials, such as straw, wheat-straw, corn bran, willow twig, rattan, palm and etc. as raw materials. The combination of technological process of straw and willow plaiting, humanized design and modern indoor design is more conductive to the development of straw and willow plaiting industry and indoor design arts. This paper discusses the relationship between straw and willow plaiting and traditional handicraft. Straw and willow plaiting, with a long history, originates from Shandong Province and develops gradually across the country. Traditional straw and willow plaiting is mainly for practical application, supplemented by the function of aesthetic appreciation, whereas, modern straw and willow plaiting continuously integrates traditional techniques and modern life and creates the application of willow plaiting products. According to process materials, straw and willow plaiting mainly includes straw plaiting, palm plaiting, rattan plaiting, willow twig plaiting, corn bran plaiting, bamboo plaiting and etc. It can also be divided into flat plaiting, twisting plaiting, tightening plaiting and so on based on techniques. As a kind of traditional technique, straw and willow plaiting is full with national character and techniques, and its products essentially manifest unique artistic concept and aesthetic orientation of Chinese nation, which is also the artistic expression and sublimation of production and life, folk custom and national culture in each nation. Willow plaiting material is sustainable material with rich cultural connotation.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2018 5th International Conference on Education, Management, Arts, Economics and Social Science (ICEMAESS 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
November 2018
ISBN
10.2991/icemaess-18.2018.183
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icemaess-18.2018.183How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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