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What are the characteristics of Shu embroidery?

Shu embroidery is a popular embroidery technique in Bashu area. Influenced by geographical environment, customs, culture and art, Sichuan embroidery, which originated from western Sichuan folk, has gradually formed a unique style of rigor, delicacy, fluency, neatness, roundness and bright colors. Shu embroidery is flexible and adaptable. Generally, silk, satin, silk, yarn and crepe are used as embroidery fabrics. According to the needs of embroidery, the production procedures, color matching and thread use are different. Shu embroidery often uses dizzy needles to express the texture of embroidered objects, reflecting the light, color and shape of embroidered objects, and the embroidery is vivid. Such as the agility of carp, the agility of golden monkey, the beauty of characters, the magnificence of mountains and rivers, the diversity of flowers and birds, and the naivety of pandas. "Thread Embroidery" is also adopted, and techniques such as halo, yarn, rolling, hiding and cutting are applied to white satin fabric, with needle as ghost pen and thread as ink, and the embroidered pattern is smooth and soft in tone. It not only adds the moist feeling of pen and ink, but also has a smooth and transparent texture.