The working people of our country started the production of felt products thousands of years ago. According to “Zhou Rites”, “Shuo Wen Jie Zi” and other records, “Zhou Guan palm fur for felt.” In Han Dynasty, felt making technology had further development. When Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty Wang Zhaojun married Xiongnu Shan Yu, he once said that “Hu is felt for tent”.
After mat technology was introduced into the Central Plains, the range of use combined with local embroidery technology was further expanded, and the tent felt was called “tent felt”. The one on the bed is called a “blanket”. Fine and soft clothing is called “clothing felt”. Thin felt decorated with beautiful patterns is called “fine felt”. The Chinese felt is said to be “light and dancing”. “Guangzhi” records that Qiang girls use it to make festive costumes.
Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties, our country had a special felt workshop. Yuan Dynasty felt workshop scale is larger, there are more than 20,000 factories. At that time, the main felt products were inner velvet blanket, lined with floral felt, Mongolian bags, felt shoes and so on.
In feudal society and semi-feudal and semi-colonial old China, the production mode, production equipment and production technology of felt production were very backward. Before liberation, all the domestic industrial felt had to rely on imports.
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the majority of workers in the felt industry reformed the process and manufacturing equipment, so that the felt products that used to rely on imports can now be produced in large quantities, with a substantial increase in output, a steady rise in quality and an increasing number of varieties. Along with the rapid development of Chinese wool industry and further study on wool fiber material, the felt industry has been developed.
After reforming and opening up, not only does our country produce felt to all industrial ones, but also complex advanced special felt products can be produced. And successfully break into the international market!
According to statistics the felt products that our country can produce about three thousand a variety of. It has made some contributions to the development of aerospace, national defense industry, machine manufacturing industry, petrochemical industry, transportation, mechanical and electrical, pharmaceutical, textile and other fields. In the great process of building socialist economy, with the progress of science and technology, China’s felt manufacturing industry will surely develop at a faster speed!
Post time: May-24-2023