Lacquerware
Yi is the traditional life products, is highly distinctive handicrafts. As early as the Song Dynasty Fan Chengda "Gui Hai Yu Heng Zhi" on the record of Yunnan Yi beautiful painting skills; Qing Yi lacquer has been a "embedded paint", "description decorated," "cover that", "quality color "" living symbol "," hidden flower ", etc., are kept in Beijing's Palace Museum fetal skin lacquer paint gourd masterpiece Yi Qing Dynasty, its cleverly designed, beautifully produced, built several sets of technical quality paint plates, bowls, cups, disc, fully demonstrated the wisdom of the Yi and craft people. Yi lacquerware species include almost all aspects of daily life Used with cutlery, wine, weapons, instruments used by teachers and other Bimo. Aggravation of lacquer from the wood, leather, bamboo, horn, wood, leather made of wood, but also the direct use of natural objects, such as horns, pig's trotters, according to their original shape made of polished lacquer painting. Production of a lacquer, first through sawing, planing, grinding, stick and other processes, and meticulously painted in the shape drawing surface ornamentation case. Yi is more traditional lacquer paint plant paint plastic type of soil, mineral pigments to deployment, the use of pot ash, yellow stone, cinnabar lacquer were transferred into the soil black, yellow, and red lacquer composition of the basic colors.

Silver
Yi silver addition process vessels, weapons, a number of accessories. The most common vessel is a small silver bowl and a variety of silver wine, multi-use device incised table, floor space, mosaics and other craft. Silver jewelry with headdress, collar ornaments, pectoral, back ornaments, jewelry. There are a variety of silver hair decorated with red bulbs and a variety of earrings; collar decorated with a variety of licensing; pectoral about 1 meter from the 7-9 combination of independent pieces of silver, with silver chain connection ; back from a rectangular piece of decorated red cloth for the bottom, top inlaid with silver moon-shaped piece, lined in red background, and appear bright Wealthy, generally, when married women to wear; mainly silver jewelry and silver bracelets rings .

Textile
Yi textile activities in the family is generally done by women, the traditional family is mainly woven textile fabric and coarse grass fire, fine wool cloth, the Yi family now more than cotton spinning of textile weaving. Yi family line and more spinning with bamboo wooden spinning wheel, each out of a down or fiber, will be fixed on the spinning wheel on the shaft end of a small hook, then twist spinning wheel to move down or fiber spinning around into the line. Is a waist loom machine, it mainly by tight board, push the line of wooden, wire shuttle, belts and other components of the composition. Weaving, the warp end of the line in the first stake on the other end wrapped around the waist in the weavers, weaving with a weft of the shuttle will cross the warp in one by one through, and then pressed with a tight board. Woven fabric or color when Jin is based on patterns in different places with different colors for the warp or weft of woven wire.

Rolling mat
Felt roll system is one of Yi traditional handicrafts. Yi Gan felt the tools slingshot, fence bar, bamboo and so on. The process first tear loose wool, tie shop on the fence, playing with a slingshot into the wool plush, stuffed and then compacted evenly on the ground floor in bamboo, felting by mouth with a spray of hot water side edges rolled bamboo, and rub hard, into the plush carpet adhesive, placing the bar on the fence, with a cord woven folds, tightly wrapped around the carpet with wooden clip, a few days later unlock the wooden top.