Exquisite Buyei Embroidery Culture

Much of the Buyi culture originates from the productive life of the Buyi people. The most common is Buyei embroidery, which is used in all parts of life. It is said that Suzhou and Hangzhou embroidery is exquisite, in fact, Buyei embroidery is as lifelike.

When you walk in the streets and lanes of the Buyi, you will find that the Buyi embroidery is colorful, exquisite and beautiful, an unparalleled work of art.

Embroidery is a kind of handmade art of the Buyi women, which is generally prevalent in the Buyi area. Buyei embroidery has a long history, Ming Hongzhi "Guizhou Tujing Xinzhi" Buyei women "under the belly of the Department of colorful flower picking square, such as the ribbon" record, indicating that the Buyei embroidery in the Ming Dynasty has been prevalent, and quite exquisite.

Embroidery methods are varied, there are flat embroidery, crepe embroidery, embroidery, embroidery, embroidery, embroidery, embroidery, ride embroidery, cut and paste embroidery. Embroidery patterns are lifelike, skillful and harmonious in tone. Embroidery patterns include figures, flowers, plants, birds, insects and butterflies, animals, etc. The patterns are embroidered with several colors, realistic, pictorial, and various geometric patterns.

Usually used as clothing, straps, waist, tent eaves, quilt tops, pillowcases, bandanas, purses, shoe uppers, handkerchiefs, etc., is the Buyei girl's beloved craft treasures.

Embroidery is a craft that every Buyi girl must learn, is a symbol of the Buyi girl's dexterity, they tend to think of themselves as the most exquisite embroidery, as their most precious gift, to express their good wishes, or as a love object, to express their own piece of heart. Boys looking for objects, often the girl embroidery craftsmanship, as the choice of object criteria.

Buyei women in some skillful masters, do not need to pattern can also feel free to fly the needle line, embroidered a variety of birds and animals, flowers and plants, fish and insects, lake and mountain colors, and modeling realistic, lifelike. The use of needlework in embroidery is diverse, flat embroidery, crepe embroidery, braid embroidery, embroidery, pick embroidery and so on.

They embroidery, often according to the needs of the pattern and their own experience to determine the stitch color matching, and constantly innovate, change, embroidery patterns colorful.

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