Which kind of Xiangyunsha fabric is the best? What kinds of Xiangyunsha fabrics are there?

Xiangyunsha fabric is a very expensive fabric produced domestically. There are different types of fabric. If you are planning to buy some clothes made of Xiangyunsha fabric, you can first understand the various types of Xiangyunsha fabric and which one is the best.

There are ancient, clothes, walking materials, and cheongsam types of Xiangyunsha. Xiangyunsha, also known as Shulangsha, is a unique summer clothing fabric popular in Lingnan in the 1940s and 1950s. Because the fabric is cool and pleasant, easy to wash and dry, deep in color and resistant to dirt, does not stick to the skin, is thin and not easy to wrinkle, soft and full of body, it is especially favored by fishermen in coastal areas. With the passage of time, various new textile fibers and textile products have been continuously developed and emerged. Shulangsha has long disappeared from the market. We can only occasionally see it in old movies such as "South China Sea Tide" and "Red Detachment of Women": Old fishermen, Nan Batian, Lao Si and others have worn this kind of black outside and brown inside, slightly shining double-breasted cloth buttoned silk shirt. There are also some TV dramas with similar clothes now, such as the clothes of the traitor Liu Kuisheng in "The Armed Workers Behind Enemy Lines". At first glance, it seems to be black with brown lining, but in fact it is a fake Shulang shirt made of two layers of fabrics of different colors, imitating the style of Xiangyunsha.

Xiangyunsha is the only silk fabric in the world dyed with pure plant dyes, and is known as "soft gold" in the textile industry. It is actually a small jacquard silk soaked in the juice of Dioscorea spp. of the Dioscoreaceae family, and the product of chemical reaction with the unpolluted river mud (commonly known as "cross-river mud") unique to Shunde, Nanhai, Sanshui, Foshan and other places in Guangdong. The main components of the Dioscorea spp. juice are polyphenols and tannins that are easily oxidized and denatured to produce coagulation effects. After chemical reaction with the high-valent iron ions of the "cross-river mud", black precipitates are produced, which condense on the surface of the silk. The front of Xiangyunsha is black, and the back is yellow-brown.

Xiangyunsha can be divided into "Lang silk" and "Lang yarn" according to the different weaving ingredients of the grey silk.

The ramie silk is 100% silk ramie, with two sides, one side is black and shiny, with some patterns formed by river mud when drying, and the original color of the other side is earthy brown (commonly known as leather copying. The current technology can already make color printing, the color is more ancient, the solid color is generally red, dark blue, dark purple, dark green, etc. The fabric that has been frosted or pleated will feel softer, of course, the cost has also increased. Now the production of Xiangyunsha fabric has given full play to people's imagination and advanced technology. The color of the ramie silk fabric produced has become richer, and the color printing side can be used as the front. Because it has been frosted or pleated, the design is more ingenious, the style is more varied, and it is more in line with the needs of the trend.

There are many types of silk fabrics that can be copied from 100% mulberry silk fabrics, such as electric spinning, plain crepe satin, double palace, mulberry satin, double crepe, Shunyu, etc. Various silk fabrics have different characteristics due to different weaving methods.

Xiangyunsha is a silk fabric unique to the Lingnan region. Different from ordinary silk fabrics, the production of Xiangyunsha requires a special process - sun-drying. What is sun-drying? It means soaking the silk fabric in yam juice and fully dyeing it, and then drying it in the sun. This process needs to be repeated more than ten times, and finally it needs to go through a mud-passing step before it can be truly made into Xiangyunsha. The rarity and high price of Xiangyunsha lies in the fact that its production process is all manual, and the process is complicated and takes a long time.

There are many fabrics on the market that pretend to be real silk fabrics like Xiangyunsha. In fact, they have not gone through the sun-drying process, but are just dyed to simulate Xiangyunsha. Everyone should remember that the real Xiangyunsha must be black on one side, and the other side should also be a darker color such as brown or yellow. It will never be a light color. In addition, fabrics with particularly bright colors are definitely not Xiangyunsha.

Xiangyunsha can be divided into ramie yarn and ramie silk according to the original silk fabric. In fact, ramie yarn is the real Xiangyunsha, which uses light and transparent silk yarn as the ramie cloth. You can see obvious sand holes in ramie yarn under the sun, and you can feel obvious airflow when you blow on the back with your mouth. Moreover, ramie yarn can absorb yam juice better than ramie silk, and it is cooler to wear.

However, there are not many real ramie yarns on the market now, but more ramie silks. Ramie silks are generally made of dense silk fabrics such as electric spinning and plain crepe satin, so they feel much more stuffy than ramie yarns. This is why many people do not feel cool after buying Xiangyun yarns. Moreover, since the yarns of ramie silks are too dense, it is difficult for river mud and yam juice to penetrate into the fabric, so the black glue on the surface is very easy to fall off after wearing for a long time. Therefore, among Xiangyun yarns, ramie yarns are definitely better and more suitable for summer wear.

Xiangyunsha is a very precious fabric, among which the silk Xiangyunsha is known as the national intangible cultural heritage. I believe many people have heard of this fabric. So are Xiangyunsha and silk the same thing?

Xiangyunsha is a kind of silk, which is made by copying silk grey cloth. Silk contains 18 kinds of amino acids, also known as the second skin. At present, it can only be made in Shunde, Guangdong. According to the composition of silk fabrics (interweaving and 100%), it is divided into ramie silk and ramie yarn. It is similar to ordinary silk in washing. Xiangyunsha is much easier to take care of than ordinary silk. Because it has been copied, it has a better texture. It is not easy to get on the body. When walking, it will form a wind tunnel, making people feel cooler.

Xiangyunsha is a kind of silk with relatively large porosity. The surface is coated with yam juice, then covered with river mud containing a large amount of iron ions and exposed to the sun. The final product is a shiny silk cloth with one side brown and the other side black. The characteristics of this silk cloth are that it dries quickly after getting wet and does not stick to the body even if you sweat.

Xiangyunsha itself is a kind of real silk. There are not many types of Xiangyunsha. It is a specific kind of real silk that has been treated with a special yam coating. If you have to say the type, it is just different in thickness.

Xiangyunsha is the only silk fabric in the world that is dyed with pure plant dyes. The yarn has a unique production process, is rare in quantity, and takes a long time to produce. It is cool and pleasant, thin and soft, dries quickly when in contact with water, is not easy to wrinkle, has rich body, can sterilize and repel insects, and has health-care effects on the skin.

Xiangyunsha is a pure silk fabric composed of protein fibers. It is very delicate and dry cleaning is the best option. If you wash it yourself, you need to wash it by hand. Please do not rub it hard and do not machine wash it.

It is best to wash by hand at a temperature below 30 degrees or with clean water. Soak the clothes or fabrics in clean water (preferably with tea juice or a little salt) for 5 to 10 minutes, use a special silk detergent or Jinfang detergent (shampoo is also OK), dissolve the detergent in the water, then put the clothes in to soak, gently wash the reverse side by hand, pat it and take it out to dry in the shade. (Or soak it with a little tea) It is normal to slightly remove the floating color. Do not machine wash, dry, or expose to the sun.

The Xiangyunsha produced by Jianshenghuo is a purely natural and environmentally friendly product. It is woven from natural fibers and is relatively delicate, especially the black side, which is actually made of yam puree. Therefore, it will fade to a certain extent when washed. When washing, pay attention to separate fabrics of different shades of color, otherwise the colors will match.

From the current situation, in addition to silk, the next most popular materials are linen, pure cotton, Tencel, Modal, etc.

Grey silk → scouring → soaking in yam juice → drying → repeating the above soaking and drying process multiple times → boiling and scouring → washing and drying yam juice multiple times → boiling again → washing and drying yam juice multiple times → boiling again → drying → mudding → washing → drying → misting → stretching → packing. The thickness of the processed fabric increases by about 30% and the weight increases by about 40%. At that time, the price of yam yarn was equivalent to about three times the price of cotton cloth, which was a mid-to-high-end product of that era. In ancient times, each piece of yam yarn was sold for 12 taels of silver, which was a relatively expensive textile product.