Shishi Ramie Cloth

Shishi Ramie Cloth

　　Ramie cloth is a traditional Chinese handicraft with a long history, woven from ramie fibers. Because the fabric is often used to make summer clothing, offering cool comfort, it is commonly known as ramie cloth or summer fabric. Shishi ramie cloth is produced through unique traditional Chinese handcrafting techniques such as yarn spinning and weaving, making it a classic material for traditional Han Chinese garments.

　　Shishi ramie cloth features fine and soft yarn, well-balanced warp and weft, neat selvedges, even weaving, delicate color, and resists wrinkling or deformation. In the early years of the Republic of China, Shishi produced “over 6,600 pieces of ramie cloth annually.” The 1936 Jiangxi Yearbook recorded that Shishi had an annual output of 32,000 pieces of ramie cloth, with 25,000 pieces sold outside the county.