Terracotta Warriors and Horses excavation found precious textile materials

Reporter learned from the Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses on the 13th, from June 13, 2009 onwards, Qin Terracotta Warriors pit began a third excavation. After a year of cleaning, Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum team of archaeological staff has discovered a large number of important relics, in addition to pottery figurines, pottery horse, bronze weapons, wooden cars, etc., but also collected many textile materials for the study of Qin and Han Dynasties Period of silk and other fabric history provides valuable physical information. It is understood that the excavation site is located in the middle of the northern pit site No. 1, belonging to the 200-square-meter excavation area approved by China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage. Excavation work paid great attention to the extraction of the detail materials. Through the cleaning and microscopic photographing of the fabric inside the drum ring and the curtain traces, the count of the weft and weft of the fabrics for different purposes was preliminary counted and samples were taken for inspection. According to Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, deputy leader of the pit archeology team Zhang Tianzhu introduced in the two tanks found in the clean-up of three box-type device, the excavation of the Qin terracotta warriors in the rare material. Although these box-shaped fire, but the shape of a clear, fetal affixed to the fabric and then by the multi-layer lacquer, mouth part of the texture of hard fabric bag set a week. Abdomen as thin as onion skin, should be cortex; fabric latitude and longitude dense, like silk; also covered the thin cover as hair like red, blue, white cloud-like decoration. Bottom of the workmanship exquisite, 45 ° seam around the edge, but thin seam 3 mm. The naming, use, nature and a series of issues to be further studied. The wooden drum cleaning 2, Drums 1 trace of a copper ring found within the fabric belt, latitude and longitude close, initially judged as silk, for the study of the history of Qin and Han dynasties such as silk provides an important material. Experts here said that in the archeological excavations in Shaanxi, there are very few textile relics that can be preserved. The discovery of these materials is very shocking for the archeological community, especially for the study of textile history of Qin precious.