The picture shows Cao master displaying his collection of hands. Sewing machine And old iron.

In addition to collecting iron, Cao Hongnian, a master of the Xujiahe community in Jiangdong District, recently got an ironed "fellow master" from the collection market. That is the early hand sewing machine. Cao Master said with a smile, now he has both tools for making clothes, and tools for ironing clothes. He can "antique production" by "one-stop".

In Ningbo Bleaching and dyeing Cao master, who works in the factory, likes to use the collection to adjust his life. Because he works in the textile system, and Ningbo is the birthplace of the famous "red gang tailor" and "red gang culture", he is very interested in Ningbo's clothing culture.

In 1986, when he went to Qingdao to recuperate, he occasionally saw the iron used by every household in the antique market. It immediately hit upon the idea: does the clothing culture include clothing production tools? So, when he returned to Ningbo, he began collecting iron. Over the past 20 years, the collection market of fan residence and three cities and the residential houses to be demolished are the places where Cao master often wanders. He said that most of the street owners would rush to sell their clumsy and unused old things. Some of their iron collectors were bought in the hands of the relocated households.

So far, master Cao has collected different ages, shapes and differences. Texture of material The old iron has only a large weight of 5 kilograms. It is like a boat shaped bronze fire. Some of them have a small chimney, which is closer to the present electric iron. It is just more cumbersome; the medium shape is like an iron bowl, with just a few handles; the smallest grip is heavy in the hand as mobile phone, and the shape is like the iron in the movie and TV play. Fine work, the iron shape has water ripple, back word, oblique stripe, Ji Zi Wen (Fu Lu Shou and other Jiji) and so on, the root of the handle is unicorn, flowers and grass. Last month, Cao master and fan sewing machine matching the iron hand sewing machine, the sewing machine's head and the present sewing machine are not two kinds, but when it sews clothes, it is hand-operated, the head is written in English, the base also has the exquisite small box which can put the sewing box, the spinning group.

Master Cao also collected some rare ancient silver thread for sewing clothes. Half a month ago, a set of experts from CCTV's "treasure hunt" column group came to Ningbo to appreciate Cao's collection. His collection was a strong evidence for textual research and study of Ningbo's clothing culture.