This is the wooden loom of Tujiazu with a long, history on which are produced the brocades with the unique national styles. The quilt cover sewn with 3 pieces of brocade is used as a girl's Jewry and is the evidence of her cleverness and deftness. It is woven on the ancient wooden loom with the cotton threads of 5 colors including red, yellow, blue, white and black in the way of connecting warp and disconnecting weft, owning breadth of 1 chi and 3 cun, length of about 3 chi, magnificent pattern, and solid and durable quality. The unique national styles and the strong local flavors can be ranked as the flower of Tujiazu arts, and win the good reputation at home and abroad. The tube-shaped skirt is to cover the downer part of body.
Skirts are one of the earliest clothes in human history.
The first clothes that our ancestors wore are aprons or clothes made of leaves or animals skins. Lizu people's weaving technology has a long history, Early in the time of War States, the ancestors of Lizu knew how to use kapok to weave elegant sheets. The in Song Dynasty, the tube-shaped skirts woven by Lizu people had been well known all over the country. The tube-shaped skirts have various patterns such as frog grain, star, water, cloud and moon lines, dragons playing in water, rice, grass, flowers and plants, deers and horses jumping, and butterflies and bees dancing. The various and life-like handicrafts are the fruit of Lizu women's talent.