Study On Shandong Color Printed Cloth

Shandong color printed cloth is a kind of manual color printing art that comes from folk in Shandong area with singular form of art, unique features, simple and gorgeous style, it’s a representative color printing art in North China. The colorful printed cloth full of dynamic and sincere, is an ancient craft skill and precious intangible cultural heritage ancestors left to us. It was once a necessity for people’s lives, plays an important role at weddings, birthdays and other festive occasions to decorate the common people’s lives. After the devastation of the Cultural Revolution, mechanized production subsequently swept the world, machine production rapidly replace the traditional manual printing and dyeing techniques, the development of Shandong color printed cloth become more and more difficult. Although, now Shandong color printed cloth have been included in the first batch of Shandong provincial intangible cultural heritage, there are more and more people are concerned about these long silenced traditional crafts, many of the traditional printed cloth pattern has been gradually lost, folk artists pretty few and have serious aging problem, besides, there are many problems about the inheritance and development of color printed cloth. If we do not take timely and effective protection measures, protect, develop and utilize this traditional manual color printing art, make the market re-focus and welcome it, Shandong color printed cloth will face extinction.In this paper, Shandong color printed cloth has been studied more comprehensively by do research, visit the main origin of Shandong area, collect data and comparative analysis method, at the same time, use large amount of traditional pattern and modern patterns of images information to do in-depth research, the conclusions are as follow s:Because of its superior geographical environment, Shandong area are suitable for planting mulberry and hemp since ancient times, color printed cloth has experienced ups and downs in the history of the development process, in modern attack by the Cultural Revolution and cannot recover after the setback. Introduce several major origin in Shandong area: Jiaxiang, Linyi, Boxing, there are several local workshop are still making color printed cloth in Jiaxiang and Linyi, but the color printed cloth craft in Boxing has been lost.In the past, color printed cloth has two production methods- embossed wooden printing process and hollow paper board printing process, the former has basically disappeared because of its low efficiency and the wooden board is not easy to save in Shandong province. Now the hollow cardboard printing process is the only process that still been used, also is the major study object. This process use one cardboard printing one color, multicolor offset printing method, include making cardboard, painting pattern, engraving, toning and dyeing 5 process.The main theme of Shandong color printed cloth patterns are plants, animals, people, geometric, text patterns, etc., they have strict regular structure and balanced composition. The patterns’ auspicious express by direct, symbol, homophonic and allegorical method, the color of patterns are strong contrast and balanced, coordinate, connect with five colors collocation principles.Comparative study of Xinjiang Uygur stamp mold printed cloth and Japanese red type printing with Shandong color printed cloth on making process and pattern characteristics, highlighting the special process of Shandong color printed cloth that use oilpaper, one color one paperboard and direct printing craft. Besides, in the decorative technique, the pattern must contain meaning, the meaning must be auspicious, seek unity in the contrast and balance, geometric and planarization performance practices. What’s more, economic, political, cultural and other superstructure and geographical environment, all these external factors can influence the development of one craft. We can seek inspiration from their development model.In the development process of color printed cloth, there are a series of problems like lack inheritance, patterns of innovation, technical defects and single type, only combine the power of the State, government agencies, educational institutions, can we solve the problems, can this old and unique craft long pass down.