Introduction to traditional button making techniques

The traditional button making technique is the folk practical production technique inherited from generation to generation in Xitang Town and Dayun Town in Jiashan County. Buttons are accessories on clothes. There are two kinds of traditional buttons: one is a shell button, and the other is a cloth woven coil button. The production of shell buttons in Jiashan County is mainly in Dagu Village in Xitang Town. The production of Panxiang Buttons is widely distributed, and it is almost in villages and villages. However, it is better to pass Xitang Town and Dayun Town in Jiashan.


Xitang Town shell buttons were created in 1921. The raw materials for the shell buttons are mainly produced in the local rivers, triangles, numbs, and bananas. Shell buttons have six production processes: Blanking, according to the size of the shell and the thickness of the shell, respectively, drop the large model, a small model (slightly thin material) of the blank button; grinding surface, the surface of the button surface with a grinding wheel to flatten down; Modeling, in the shape of the car out of the edge, groove and other shapes; drilling, with a drill pin in the middle of the button drilled threading two or four holes; peeling, put the button into the pot, burn the button surface Black skin can be removed so far; Bleaching, putting the button in the bucket, adding water, rotating the bucket with an artificial drum pedal, using the friction between the buttons to bleach the buttons; polishing, soaking the buttons in six kinds of chemistry The medicine powder is transferred into the syrup. After soaking for 24 hours, put it in a polishing drum. After adding hydrochloric acid, turn the shaker and rinse it more than 10 times. Add wood chips, soap powder, and cold water to shake the bucket. After about 10 minutes Take it out, wash it, dry it, separate the beads, remove the polished button and dry it and separate the beads. Then packaged for sale.


Panxiang New Zealand production process: the first choice of materials. Cotton, satin and other fabrics are generally used. The color and pattern may be determined according to the color of the garment. The second drop. The cloth selected will be cut into diagonal strips to a width of 0.6 inches (2 cm). The third side of the road. The cut fabric strips are folded inwards by an average of two quarters, and then folded in half, and then the folded fabric strips are sewn with the same color threads. The fourth knot. After folding the strips, the grapes are tied in the middle. The fifth stereotype. After tying knots and circling the circle between the male and female cubs, the redundant strips were each dished into various shapes such as a butterfly dish and a peach. Sixth stitch. Stitches are completed and button making is completed. There are many types of incense buttons, including Chrysanthemum New, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand and New Zealand.


The representative inheritor of traditional dish-making techniques was Ji Xiufeng of Dayun Town, Jiashan County. Ji Xiufeng, female, was born in April 1965. He has a strong ability to learn from childhood. He learned to make incense buttons with his mother Ji Meixiang since his youth. She is famous for the thirty to forty Chinese-style garments and incense buttons.

The representative inheritor of the traditional shell button making technique was Tao Yunlin from Xitang Town, Jiashan County. He was born in 1956. He learned to make shell buttons from his father Tao Fuyun. He started a family button factory in 1983 and produced shell buttons. In 2009 was included in the provincial representative inheritors.


Traditional button making skills included in the third batch of Zhejiang intangible cultural heritage




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