The Ming dynasty (13681644) inherited the long-standing culture in China, of course including the textile technology. Besides a large amount of single color damask silk, many pattern woven silk including dragon robes, patterned costumes and luxurious silk textiles are found in complicated and colorful pattern woven brocade called zhuang hua. It was prevailed in Ming dynasty when compared with the frequency of the name zhuang hua recorded in related historical documents. These pattern silk and brocade were produced by the advanced pattern weaving technology, which was well developed in Ming dynasty. From historical documents of “Tian gong kai wu”, Exploitation of the works of nature, there is the detailed description of the draw loom (hua lo ji) which can weave normal patterned textiles. It also indicated that to produce dragon robes needed much more high technique, similar to the hua lo ji but more complicated and difficult. A big draw loom is found to weave Nanjing Yun brocade today inherits the technology to weave zhuang hua brocade. After sorting the historical documents, it is found that some records are coincident with the existed materials, both the silk textiles and weaving technology. With these evidences research and exploration, this dissertation tries to unravel the pattern weaving technology in the Ming dynasty.
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