Abstract:

Study on the structure of Tibetan costumes, by means of plotting and structure restoration of Tibetan robes from Ethnic Costume Museum of Beifing Institute of Fashion Technology, and the summarization of the cutting techniques of Tibetan robes by cutting technician from Hongyuan county in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, and the reference of documents about the cutting technique on Tibetan robes, it is found that the cutting technique named complementary side pieces and compoementary inserted pieces are ubiquitous in Tibetan robes. By combining the comparative approach, it is concluded that JIAO YU cutting technique in "Making Clothes" of Qin bamboo slips is the same as the cutting technique on Tibetan robes. Both of them are the complementary cutting method in one-width piece of cloth. The Qin bamboo slips unearthed in the Yangtz River, the habitat area of the Han nationality. It is the true record of the cutting technique on Qin clothes of Han nationality. However, this cutting technique is inherited in Tibetan robes by the modern Tibetan tailors.

Key words: JIAO YU, unit cloth width, cutting algorithm, Tibetan robe