A Study On The Chinese Silk Pattern Of The 20^th Century

The 20th century just passing is a rich and wonderful century. No matter this period or comparing with the former period, Chinese politics, economy, culture and education has the great revolution. The world famous Chinese silk goes through the vicissitudes. In the progress of the revolution, it is the important phenomenon which can not be ignored in the 20th century. This paper wants to describe the silk development and social vicissitudes of a century in china through silk pattern.The transition and the revolution of designing education of the silk industry in the late Qing dynasty and the early republican china change the traditional environment of Chinese silk pattern to some extent. It does not influence the outer features’evolutions of silk pattern, but also promote the changes of the characteristics of patter inner and get rid of the original feudalism and become more modernization.The women’s dress of Republican china is the important point for us to research evolutions of silk pattern in Republican china. In just about forty years, Republican china silk pattern looks out a new appearance both absorbing the foreign patterns and weed through the old to bring forth the new after assimilation. It does not change with the evolutions of the women’s dress but also break the form of the ancient pattern with complex procedures so that it has the obvious foreign features. The early republican china continued the type of the late of Qing dynasty, the foreign pattern was brought in with large amount. The pattern was popular, pattern model was more cubic and the color was changing from gaudy to simple and elegant.After the republic of china was established, its phenomenon was different from that of the domestic dress with color of grey, green and blue and the export silk had the heavy tasks to appear wonderful sights and earn foreign exchange through exports. With the continual progress of the science and technology of the silk, the new colors and patterns sprang up. The creation is the key to open the selling road and designing is not attached importance. Through the continual exploration of the designing personnel and the sincere cooperation of all the departments, it accomplishes the tasks in the exporting and becomes the most wonderful part for Chinese silk development.The ending of decade calamity predicts the coming of the new area. The silk industry grasps the opportunity of the reform and opening-up. On the one hand, it brings in the advanced foreign equipments and increases the production processing, and on the other hand, it expands the communication with international fashion market to open the eyes and thoughts. There are many new types and new patterns springing up continually to form the flourishing situation both in the domestic sales and export. The thought of Silk pattern design is broadened and it bravely applies many abstract patterns to video control its serviceability and try to make more creations realize by being promoted by the processing progress so that it makes the export pattern integrate with the international. The patterns for the domestic sales are pursued again with the improvement of the people’s living condition.Since 1990s, the market economy system has been established. The state-owned silk company is transferred to be on market. The township enterprises develop fast and the development model of the former production is instead by the production operation model. The silk enterprises take the market as the reference to be ready to adjust the operation strategy at any time. The enterprise purchases the patterns and the appearance of the pattern designing enterprise, offices and other institutions marks that the labor division of the designing and production under the market economy system and reflects out the features of the modern operation model. The silk pattern as the dependent commodity appears again in the republican china. However, sand wash silk which was popular in 1990s leads that the silk honored Jacquard weaves and printing technology are useless and the old colors and patterns won by the refining pattern also get the cold shoulders.