Simple steps of sewing sachets.

The simple steps of sewing sachets are as follows:

Tools/raw materials

1, cloth, braided wire

2, sewing needle and thread, spices, scissors, brushes.

Methods/steps

1. First, draw a cloth cutting line to be cut on the cloth. The size of sachet to be made today is 5cm, and the unfolded size of uncut cloth is 12cm*7cm.

2. Then fold the cloth in half, often sew both sides and turn the sachet over to sleep.

3. Continue to fold at the edge and fill with your favorite spice filler. At this time, it would be better if you could plug in more shapes.

4. Then close your mouth and leave a hole when there is the last small position.

5. Then fold 10cm braided thread in half and tie a knot at the incision to make it into a collar shape, and put one end of the knot into the small hole left by the sachet.

6. Finally, hang your ear and the sachet will be ready.

Brief introduction of sachet

This kind of sachet is also called flannel, box, box, Xiang Ying and Pei Wei. Today is called purse, playing with goods and shorting. It is a folk embroidery handicraft created by working women in ancient China.

It is the product of China ancient farming culture marked by men plowing and women weaving, and it is the remains and regeneration of China traditional culture that has lived for thousands of years.

The sachet was originally called "smelly". In Qu Yuan's Lisao, there is "Hujiang Powder, Bi, which Qiu Lan thinks is admirable". At that time, the spices were Bizhi and Qiu Lan. In the Ming dynasty, there were still smelly names. Traditional sachets in China are mostly made of silk and filled with realgar, smoked grass, mugwort and other spices. It is said that sachets can ward off evil spirits, so they will be hung on the Dragon Boat Festival.

In 2008, it was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion projects.

The history of making and wearing sachets can be traced back at least to the Warring States Period. In Qu Yuan's Li Sao, there are "Hujiang powder, Bi Xi Zhi, and Qiu Lan think it is admirable."

Li Jiang, Fructus Aurantii and Qiulan are all herbs. Sewing means connecting. Pei is, which means sachet and wearing. The whole sentence means taking Pei Wei, who is full of herbs. Thus, as early as the Warring States period when Qu Zi was alive, the sachet was an ornament.