Straw hats plaiting allows pocket bulging with money

The definition of straw arts and crafts made by straw craftsmen is now more and more full, as straw is plaited to make crafts, the workmanship that kept up with our industrial society instead of just remaining to be a traditional handicraft.

Cenkai, 40-year-old, who was trained from childhood to plait straw used in hats through her mother for making small wages, has understood the truth: compared to modern industrial machines, all the people in every family that continues silently straw weaving, the business that is not not strong enough "physically", even far less efficient for them. "In the past money mothers made were the too small payments for piece of handwork hand. Semi-finished products at a few yuan sold to foreign investors, will be sold at prices of hundreds of yuan as long as a little decorative packaging." She said.

Until learning what was what and how to manage a business, Cenkai has started run a her own straw hat company. From sources, design, manual workers to packaging, she all got it.

"It's not high in fees for hat materials, but it is important to have a excellent design." Cenkai thought twice before introduction of the annual international fashion elements to produce straw hat, making straw hats fashionable as well.

Walking into the Cenkai's company, on the ground was filled with this season's new products, a pure white straw hat that has drawn special attentions, which consists of white grass and plaited in a method of plain knitting of ordinary style, still wearing a cap in "Bohemian" style of the big flowers. It shows it uniqueness.

"This is the most popular style this year, at first glance it looks like the white straw woven hat. People who do not know the truth will always want to study what this soft and delicate varieties of grass is? In fact, this is a kind of paper-based material very similar to real straw. "Cenkai said, "Using paper straw for hat is because paper is not easy to break. Moreover, we can weave them together easily. It not like real grass, which is different in sizes or thickness, but more appropriate".

The way of straw plaiting in here really changed. It also include river grass, alpine rush, corn husk, straw grass, rush straw, weed straw, spike grass, paper straw of more than 20 kinds of various qualities of grass, which can be used to make a straw hats, and even cotton, polyester, silk and other articles can be copied into the grasses.

"All kinds of material is not the same in their strength or toughness. To fulfill their potential and be able to plait a variety of styles of hats, we decided to develop more materials." Cenkai's "hat kingdom" achieves the average annual output of 20 million yuan, 56 million yuan to the most.

"Process improvement is too fast, I am not confident now." 50-year-old Luo plaited straw hats for almost a lifetime, she found hat styles in recent years turned to be more and more - hollow flower salty hat, straw grass hat with flowers, casual linen cap, leisure mushroom caps, raffia hats and so on. Even though as a recognized "talent", she have to strive to learn new weaving methods, too. Rough estimate, the current uses of woven straw hat on 3,000 kinds of methods.

"If weave methods are complex, as prices gos up, 40 yuan will be made to make a hat with the most complex colors. For a whole year, women generally earn a twenty thousand." In Luo's eyes, all have slowly returned to the peak period when it would be a strong signal that spring of straw hats making coming!