Weaving is present-day Amarapura's major supply of income. Amarapura, when called the 'Town of Immortality', money of the Burmese kingdom and seat of the 'Konbaung dynasty' from 1783 A.D. to 1859/60 A.D. is found some 11 kilometres/7 miles south of Mandalay. Here, were every 2nd house is claimed to possess at least one loom is, among others, Burma's most joyful and lovely clothing, the ceremonial 'longyi', 'A-Cheik' htamain (for woman) and 'A-Cheick' pasoe (for men), woven from silk. 'A-Cheicks' are textiles that are quickly recognisable by their complex weaving-patterns which make up their extremely attractive and difficult designs. The silk and cotton weavers from Amarapura are popular during Burma. Their colourful high-quality textiles/clothes in many different designs and color models both old-fashioned and modern come in strong demand and available everywhere in the country Poly cotton yarn.
Another middle of Burma's weaving business may be the Inlay Lake. The textiles made here also are often from silk. The approach employed by the Inlay weavers can be an age-old one, called 'Ikat' ;.Frequently, the strings are dyed ahead of the weaving process in that they are bound tightly together and submerged right into a dyeing bath for every color individually. But, the Inlay material is produced in a somewhat various way. Although the usual means of dyeing would be to dye the strings individually, i.e. every one features a split color, the 'Intha's' method to dye the strings would be to color the colours on the threads. The benefit of this approach is that it doesn't demand a retying of the strings of each individual color used.
As for the weaving process it self it is almost a objective impossible to have the strings perfectly match the woven sample, what benefits in significantly 'blurred' sides of the motifs. In other words, the motifs are not sharply divided from their background or motifs bordering on them. That effect of 'soft' sides may be the unique function of the Inlay textiles, which are very bright in color and homosexual in motif.
But, there's something that models a special group of Inlay weavers independent of the remaining portion of the world's weavers. And this unique function is neither a special design, sample, means of dyeing or weaving nor can it be a special color, color combination or the sort of garments they are weaving. It is nothing of these specific things but a distinctive material. A product that is unique in both source and way of spinning of the threads/yarn. It is 'Lotus silk', made of the fine fibres of the lotus rose stem.
The story of this original product and the 'Padonmar' lotus base fibre weaving started in 1914 with Daw Sar Oo (Miss Sparrow Egg). She was a lay person in the tiny town of Kyain Khan, found at the Inlay Lake in Shan State. Her wish was to provide to the Abbot of the area 'Fantastic Peacock Feather Monastery' something really particular and unprecedented. A wish she had developed on the basis of the 'Zi-natta Pakar Thani', based on which King Siddhartha was upon leaving the palace to begin to reside his life as cosmetic monk provided a monk's robe by way of a Brahma (celestial being) who had found it in a lotus blossom.
When seeing the long and really fine filaments that were trailing from the reduce ends of lotus stems following she had rocked the large-petal lotus flower from their store - because it is usually done in order to offer them at pagodas, etc. - she saw herself getting close to her to be able to fulfil this strange and really particular wish of hers.
In these some phrases of reason concerning the subject 'Lotus' generally speaking as the thing that individuals do mainly keep company with the word 'Lotus' is just an extremely unspecified rose with orange, red or bright plants that keeps growing in freshwater seas and ponds. But this is not precisely all and the thing that is natural in and stated by the word 'Lotus' ;.Here are a few data for the botanists among you.
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