Suzhou Embroidery Introduction

Suzhou embroidery is the general name of embroidery products in Suzhou, and is most famous for Suzhou Zhenhu embroidery.

Suzhou embroidery is Suzhou embroidery, its birthplace in Suzhou Wu County area, has now spread throughout Jiangsu Province, Wuxi, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Suqian, Dongtai and other places, Suzhou embroidery origin of Jiangsu fertile land, mild climate, sericulture is developed, silk, since ancient times, is the hometown of embroidery.

Superior geographic environment, brilliant and rich brocade, colorful floral line, for the development of Su embroidery to create favorable conditions.

Now the craft of Chinese Suzhou embroidery has reached a high level, and the embroidery has won many awards at home and abroad.

The embroideries are complete: according to the varieties, there are double-sided embroideries and single-sided embroideries; according to the volume modeling, there are table screens, wall screens, floor screens and large-scale combination screens; according to the content of expression, there are figures, pets, birds and flowers, landscapes, still lifes, and buildings with special features, and so on.

Expanded

Craftsmanship

"Split silk" is one of the Suzhou embroidery techniques, that is, a flower line is divided into a number of parts, focusing on the reasonable use of threads and texture of the changes, but also according to different cloth, color and subject matter, not only the flexibility of integrated operation of the needle, and the flower line splitting silk coarseness and fineness of the right degree, so as to fully express the object image of the texture. The texture of the image of the object.

Su embroidery goldfish tail, the line should be fine, row of needles to virtual, in order to show light, transparent, embroidery fish body line should be slightly thick, row of needles dense, in order to show the sense of thick, such as embroidery stones, old tree stems, etc., the line is thick, row of needles do not have to be too uniform, and then embroidered cats, according to the object of the law of change of the hair to master the silky, embroidered out of the cat fluffy terrain of the book of ten thousand words realistic and vivid.

Su embroidery craft is good at summarizing experience to take a unique approach, following the hair embroidery, double-sided embroidery, and successively succeeded in creating double-sided heterochromatic embroidery, double-sided heterochromatic heterogeneous embroidery, and other new works, in terms of purely appreciated fine arts embroidery, it is a needle instead of a pen, cumulative silk and thread, techniques, needlework is also characterized by "and the color of the traces of the even, ironing, silk, hair pieces of light and fast! "four words.

It can be said that the craft of Suzhou embroidery is embroidered to reflect the style of the times in the new works of further development and improvement, in addition to partially meet the needs of the domestic people, Suzhou embroidery is also exported to Japan, Italy, Morocco, New Zealand, the United States and other nearly 60 countries and regions.

Historical origin

Suzhou embroidery has a history of more than 2,000 years, as early as the Three Kingdoms period (220 to 280 AD) there are records on the production of Suzhou embroidery.

Since then, through the continuous development and improvement of successive generations, by the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Suzhou embroidery had become a common mass sideline product in the Suzhou area, forming the situation of "every family raises silkworms, and every family embroiders".

Suzhou embroidery in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) was famous for its "fine and elegant", and Suzhou was known as the "city of embroidery" at that time. In the mid- to late-Qing Dynasty, Suzhou embroidery was further developed in embroidery technology, and there was a new and exquisite "double-face embroidery", and there were as many as 65 embroidery merchants specializing in the business of embroidery in Suzhou alone.

Republic of China period (1912-1949), due to the perennial war, Su embroidery industry had declined, after the founding of New China, Su embroidery has been further restored and developed, after 1950, the state set up a special Institute of Su embroidery, and the opening of embroidery training courses.

Su embroidery needlework from the original 18 kinds of development to today's more than 40 kinds of embroidery, Su embroidery has a beautiful pattern, clever ideas, embroidery work is meticulous, lively needlework, color and elegant unique style, strong local characteristics, embroidery techniques with "flat, Qi, fine, dense, and, light, smooth, uniform" characteristics, in the types of embroidery, Su embroidery can be divided into three main categories of zero-shear, play clothes, hanging screen, both decorative and practical, in which the "Su embroidery" and "Su embroidery" are the most important. Both decorative and practical, of which the "double-sided embroidery" works the most exquisite.

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