Madam Huang's Loom

"In the late Southern Song Dynasty, there was a clever and charming girl surnamed Huang, coming from a very poor family. Since she was a little girl, she often watched her mother threading her needle and making beautiful clothes. She wished she could make lovely clothes by herself when she grew up ...Huang Daopo, an innovator in cotton textile technology, was born in Wunijing, Songjiang. His birth and death years are unknown. He was a famous cotton weaver and technical reformer during the late Song and early Yuan dynasties. When I was young, I wandered to Yazhou, Hainan and learned advanced cotton textile techniques from local Li women. After returning to her hometown, she passed on her skills to her fellow villagers and played an important role in the development of the cotton textile and planting industries in the Yangtze River Basin. Later generations praised her as the ""female textile technician"" of the ""clothing and bedding world"".¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿"¿¿¿¿"¿"¿¿¿¿¿¿"¿