Why embroidery is known as ecological wisdom

Embroidery is known as ecological wisdom

Embroidery is commonly known as "embroidery", which is to use embroidery needles to lead the colorful threads according to the design of the pattern on the fabric embellished with needles to stitch to form patterns or words, is one of China's outstanding national traditional crafts. Traditional embroidery as a long history of handicrafts, which cohesion of the profound national cultural heritage, showing a strong Chinese culture and national characteristics, has a high artistic ornamental value.

The cultural connotation of embroidery

Embroidery has a history of at least 2,000 to 3,000 years in China, and there are four main types of embroidery: Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery and Cantonese embroidery. Embroidery techniques include: wrong needle embroidery, messy needle embroidery, net embroidery, full-ground embroidery, locking silk, nasturtium, nasturtium, flat gold, shadow gold, pan gold, paving velvet, scraping velvet, poking yarn, spilling thread, picking flowers, etc. The contents include: landscapes, pavilions, and other works of art. The contents include: landscape, pavilion, figures, birds and flowers, paintings and calligraphy, Buddhist scriptures, Buddha statues and so on.

China is the first country in the world to discover and use silk, with the use of silk, silk fabrics and development, embroidery craft also gradually emerged. According to the "Shangshu" recorded in the chapter of the clothing system on the provisions of the "clothing painting and clothing embroidery", the Song Dynasty period of reverence for embroidered garments, and gradually become widely popular in the folk, which also contributed to the development of China's embroidery technology.