Basic Introduction to Chinese Embroidery

Embroidery is one of China's outstanding national traditional crafts. Embroidery, also known as silk embroidery. China is the earliest country in the world to discover and use silk, and people started raising silkworms and reeling silk four or five thousand years ago. With the use of silk, silk fabrics and development, embroidery gradually emerged, according to the "Shangshu" recorded in four thousand years ago, the chapter clothing system, it is stipulated that "clothing painting and clothing embroidery". During the Song Dynasty, the trend of embroidered garments has gradually become more popular among the people, which also contributed to the development of silk embroidery in China.

The Lu Xiang Yuan Gu embroidery in Shanghai and the Phoenix embroidery in Beijing were the most famous embroideries of the time. Passed down through the generations, the Gu family's reputation for excellence in embroidery spread throughout the country and was appreciated by the imperial court. By the Qing Dynasty, Gu embroidery was not only famous at home, but also overseas, attracting many foreign merchants to Shanghai,

Today, China's embroidery craft is almost all over the country, Suzhou embroidery, Hunan Hunan embroidery, Sichuan Shu embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, each with its own special characteristics, known as China's four famous embroidery. The embroidery artwork developed today has a fine and complex craftsmanship. For example, the double-sided embroidery "Cat" is one of the representative works of Suzhou embroidery. Artists divide a hair-thick embroidery thread into one-half, one-quarter, to one-twelfth, one-forty-eighth of a fine embroidery thread, and hide millions of threads and knots without a trace. Whether from the front or the reverse side can be seen in the kitten's mischievous and lively demeanor, embroidery cat is the most difficult pair of cat eyes, artists need to use more than 20 colors of silk thread in order to be embroidered to the cat eye gleaming, vivid. So far, on the basis of double-sided embroidery, it has been developed into double-sided embroidery of different colors, which opens up a new way for the embroidery process. General embroidery daily necessities such as quilt tops, pillowcases, cushions, shoe uppers and so on, many Chinese folk women can embroider, more popular.

Now there are silk feather embroidery is more lifelike three-dimensional sense of strong, feather embroidery can be embroidered not only landscape flowers and birds, but also embroidered daily necessities and even carpets, tapestries and so on. Production method is simple, is the use of people's daily life thrown away by a variety of poultry feathers, after sterilization, hand-embroidered.

In 1958, embroidery with dragon and phoenix motifs was unearthed in a Chu tomb in Changsha, China, which was embroidered more than 2,000 years ago during the Warring States period of ancient China, and it is one of the earliest embroidery objects in China that have been discovered.

Ancient Chinese embroidery, for a long time in the international art market does not sell, the price is flat. Until 1993 in Hong Kong, Singapore and other places, only began to collect people specialized. According to market analysts deduce that to make embroidery become the new favorite on the international market, collectors still need 10 years of effort. In the past two years, some domestic art auctions, embroidery auction, the price of competing high, very attractive to buyers competition.

What exactly is called "embroidery"?

Commonly known as "embroidery", is already processed on the fabric, with a needle lead, according to the design requirements for piercing, through the needle will be embroidered into a variety of patterns and color organization of a technology.