Plush yarn was introduced to China after the Opium War. In the earliest photos we saw, the Chinese were either wearing leather robes (with all kinds of leather on the inside and satin or cloth on the outside) or cotton robes (inside and outside) in winter. They are all cotton wool in the middle of the cloth), fat and fat, especially children, like round balls. The first people to knit sweaters were foreigners who came to China. Slowly, many wealthy and fashionable women also began to learn hand-knitting. By the beginning of the 20th century, in coastal settlement cities like Shanghai and Tianjin, sweater knitting had become a common practice. kind of fashion.
A ball of wool, two bamboo needles, sitting idle under the window of the living room, the sun shines on the woman's shoulders through the embroidered white screen, the kind of comfort and quietness is indescribable. In Shanghai, many shops specializing in woolen yarn have masters sitting on the table, teaching knitting skills to women who buy woolen yarn. Slowly, hand-knitting sweaters has also become a means of livelihood for many women. "Good job at work" gradually replaced "good job at embroidery", and became a compliment to a lady for her ingenuity. On the old Shanghai month cards, there is always a perm-haired beauty wearing a colorful cheongsam and a hand-knitted white sweater with a hollow pattern. The popularity of hand-knitted sweaters made the wool industry develop rapidly. Even in the war years, many national industries were forced to stop production, and the wool production industry could barely maintain.
Post time: Jul-19-2022
