China'S Li Brocade Jacquard Fabric Appears At The Top Fabric Exhibition In Paris 2025

In the shape of a gourd, it carries the auspicious fortune of "fortune", the snake scale pattern moves the oriental charm, with green and green as the bottom and red dots "fortune" - this is the fabric, and also the contemporary expression of the millennium Lijin culture. Donghua University announced on the 13th that, on February 12, 2025, at the French First Visual Fabric Expo Premier è re Vision Paris (hereinafter referred to as PV Exhibition), the textile design innovation team of Donghua University School of Textile and related enterprises jointly designed and developed the Li brocade art jacquard handbag, which showed the creative transformation of Chinese intangible cultural heritage to global designers.

On February 12, 2025, the Li brocade jacquard handbag jointly designed and developed by the textile design innovation team of the School of Textiles of Donghua University and related enterprises appeared in the French First Vision Fabric Expo Premier è re Vision Paris, explaining the creative transformation of Chinese intangible cultural heritage to global designers. Courtesy of Donghua University

French PV Expo is a top textile fabric expo open to global textile professionals, and it is also the most authoritative and latest fabric fashion trend release vane in the world. The Li brocade jacquard series fabrics on display this time deconstruct the traditional gourd totem of the Li nationality in Hainan into a pattern skeleton. Through the precise jacquard process, it simulates the layered texture of snake scales. The green and green gradual change background symbolizes the vitality of the tropical rainforest. The red cinnabar "Fu" character, which is the finishing touch, implies the cultural metaphor of "seeing happiness and getting happiness". The audience was amazed at the balance between traditional symbols and modern aesthetics in the fabric. An Italian buyer said: "The collision between the traditional oriental culture and the sense of science and technology redefines the possibility of luxury fabrics."

"The fabric uses the ancient technology of Li brocade, aiming to celebrate the Spring Festival of the Year of the Snake, skillfully integrate the traditional auspicious meaning with modern textile technology, and make this technology internationalized." Xue Wenliang, the head of the research and development team and professor of the Textile College of Donghua University, said that the Li brocade jacquard fabric presented this time was not so much a textile fabric, It is more like a work of art with unique oriental charm.

Li brocade password series fabrics. Courtesy of Donghua University

Chai Fangjun, the person in charge of Shanghai Dingtian Fashion Technology Co., Ltd., attaches great importance to the school enterprise cooperation. He stressed that "the 'living inheritance' of Li brocade needs to talk to the world. We use 3D jacquard weaving technology to make totems' flow ', and let ancient skills tell the new Chinese fashion in Paris." In his view, the "Li brocade password" series is not only a tribute to the Li culture, It is also a cultural dialogue across regions and time and space, showing the brand's emphasis on cultural heritage, as well as forward-looking and inclusive in fashion innovation.

As early as July 2022, the textile design innovation team of the School of Textiles of Donghua University cooperated with Shanghai Dingtian Fashion Technology Co., Ltd. to launch the project of "Research on Traditional Jacquard Cotton Fabric Weaving Techniques and Their Innovative Applications". From July to August 2024, the textile design innovation team of the Textile College of Donghua University will go to Hainan Province to carry out the practical activity of "taking the road of Huang Daopo again - contemporary inheritance and exploration of the traditional cotton textile skills of the Li nationality". The teachers and students traced back to Huang Daopo's past footsteps and gradually unveiled the mysterious veil of Li Jin, an ancient art.

"When I returned to the path of Huang Daopo, as a textile student, I not only felt the charm of China's ancient textile technology, but also decided to use my own profession to make the ancient Li brocade technology shine in the present." Cui Xiangyu, a 2024 doctoral candidate in textile materials and textile design, said.

With this initial intention, Cui Xiangyu and a group of "post-00s" college students began to focus on the research of Li brocade jacquard fabrics. They combined the ancient Li brocade techniques with modern Shanghai culture, integrated the unique oriental beauty into modern textile design, and carefully considered and pondered every pattern, every pattern, and every color match. With the ingenuity of this group of young designers, the textile works of art that both carry the historical heritage and highlight the style of the times were unveiled at the international top fabric exhibition.

(Source: China News Network)