Guiyang Folk Crafts: Embroidery Culture

Embroidery is known as female red in ancient times, is one of the traditional crafts in China, has a long history. Due to regional differences, the embroidery style is different, the technique is also different, skillful, colorful content, each with its own characteristics. Embroidery development so far, will be less and less people, see most of the mechanical weaving embroidery. Now we go into Guiyang culture to see Guiyang folk crafts: embroidery culture it.

Embroidery and flower picking is the Guiyang national traditional crafts in the garden bloomed two wonders, batik products are embedded in the art of national culture, they are rugged, simple and ancient Nuo masks and other boutique products of the national culture, as much as the domestic and foreign friends of the favor.

The embroidery of ethnic minorities in Guizhou has a unique style, which is most typical of the Miao embroidery, patterns taken from natural scenery, in the art of exaggeration to produce a strong decorative effect. Pick the flower of a variety of techniques, there are single-sided pick, double-sided pick, there are plain pick flowers, colorful silk pick flowers, but also in the same product on the pick embroidered with a variety of processes such as complementary.

Guiyang Huaxi Miao flower picking has a history of several hundred years, the local peculiar cross picking due to the limitations of the cross stitching process, the more obvious on the uniqueness of its process. Ancient Huaxi flower picking to fishbone pattern, commonly used plant patterns, such as prickly pear flowers, butterfly flowers, octagonal flowers, cockle flowers, etc., and very few animal and human figures, because of its rigorous pattern, modeling, generalization, simplicity, form "geometric", with a strong sense of decorative interest.

Pick flower is based on the latitude and longitude lines on the base cloth to design patterns of decorative arts, mostly geometric patterns, which is the most exquisite HuaXi Miao pick flower, which in the traditional techniques on the basis of innovation, whether in color or composition, are more in line with the modern aesthetic interest.

"The number and scale of embroiderers in Guizhou is rare in the country." Picking around the country for inspiration, Marco spent the most time in Guizhou. She says what strikes her most about Guizhou embroidery is the emotion it contains. Whether it's a child's carrier or a woman's dowry, the old folk craft embroidery contains the embroiderer's love for her family. At the same time, many ethnic groups without writing, the national history in the form of embroidery passed down, not only a high level of arts and crafts, its value and significance is the treasure of human history.