In the past, almost every family in central and western Guizhou grew hemp, and everyone wore hemp clothes and quilts. May, July and September are the seasons of hemp harvesting, which can be harvested three times a year. When the hemp grows to a height of three or four feet, the hemp leaves are beaten with bamboo strips, the hemp skin is peeled off, and the rough skin is scraped off with a planer, leaving only the fiber part, which is called raw hemp. Industrious women pie cooked hemp into filaments and bundles around them. As long as they have a little free time, they twist the hemp yarn and roll it into a ball. once it's done on the machine, it's ready to weave. In some areas, there are linen masters who specialize in weaving linen. Cotton is also a commonly used textile fabric for batik in Guizhou. In eastern and central Guizhou, cotton is planted at the end of March and the beginning of April in the lunar calendar, and cotton is harvested in August. Expose the harvested seed cotton to the sun and use a gin to remove the seeds. Use a big bow to loosen the cotton, and then use a thin bamboo stick and a cotton pad to rub the soft cotton into a hollow cotton sliver. Then, the cotton sliver is spun into cotton yarn and wound on a straw tube with a spinning wheel, and then arranged into a yarn. Roll the sized yarn on the bamboo tube to form a cooked spindle, and then carry out the machine work such as warp cloth, hoisting, reeding, etc., and use a wooden comb to comb the warp neatly, and then wrap some yarn around the small bamboo tube and put it into the shuttle. As a weft yarn, it can be weaved. The width of home weaving is generally about 40 cm, and a skilled person can weave four or five meters a day.
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