工作坊

It wears a guāpímào of six matte dark-indigo gores, close on the skull with no brim and its seam ribs raised so the lower edge reads scalloped, the crown button replaced by a six-petal opening through which the single tall leaf rises. The project colour is the piping along the six seams and the ring around the opening.

It wears a bāotóu, undyed handloom cloth wound in three coils into a closed ring with the crown left empty, the coils circling the base of the closed bud while the two leaf-ears pass out beneath the lowest coil and stay uncovered. The project colour is the flat tucked end of the cloth at the nape.

It wears a tóujīn of undyed linen, folded to a band and knotted at the nape with two long ends hanging down the back, closed around the base of the crest through a lengthwise slit so the crest rises out of the cloth. The project colour is the two hanging ends.

It wears a píngdǐnglì, a flat bleached-bamboo disc with an open centre and no crown at all, carried clear on short inner struts so that nothing touches the standing white-down ruff around its face. The project colour is the tape bound along the rim and the facing on the underside of the centre ring.

It wears a zōngmào of shaggy palm fibre gathered into thick lobes with a ragged lower edge, the fibre mass divided by a narrow bridge between two separate openings so the forked shoots emerge apart, reading as branches rather than as one pair. The project colour is the plaited cord binding the fibre at the base and the chin tie.

It wears a quilted fēngmào hood of indigo stencil-dyed cotton with a short shoulder cape, worn up, a bound eyelet on the crown seam letting the blunt crown knob stand clear above the quilting. The project colour is the hood lining visible around the face opening and the throat tab under the chin.

It wears a conical dǒulì of woven bamboo splint, steep crown and wide low brim, its woven apex left open as a bound ring so the curled crown-hook passes through and locks the hat in place. The project colour appears only in the chin cord and in the binding inside the brim edge.

It wears a mò'é, a wide quilted brow band of undyed hemp in pearl grey, sitting low across the forehead and over the ears with the crown left fully open, cut wider than the skull so the head reads horizontal rather than tall. The project colour is the band along its lower edge.

It wears a Yunnan felted zhānmào, a squat garnet-brown wool bowl with a stiff brim turned outward, seated over its low domed skull like a socket rather than pierced. The project colour is the flat band running around the joint where the bowl meets the turned brim.