There are several categories of Cantonese embroidery

Cantonese Embroidery has more than 60 kinds of stitches. These include three major categories: basic stitches, auxiliary stitches and pictorial stitches. Cantonese Embroidery (CantoneseEmbroidery) is a general term for Guangzhou Embroidery (Canton Embroidery) and Chaozhou Embroidery (Chao Embroidery), one of the four famous embroideries in China, originating in the Tang Dynasty. Canton Embroidery refers to the embroideries of Guangzhou, Foshan, Nanhai, Panyu, Shunde, Dongguan, Bao'an, Xiangshan, Taishan, etc., which is the general name of the folk embroidery crafts of the Pearl River Delta centered on Guangzhou. Chao embroidery originated and became popular in the present-day Chaoshan area.

Categorization of Cantonese embroidery varieties

The appreciated items of Cantonese embroidery are bar screen, seat screen and screen, etc. There are many varieties of daily necessities. There are many varieties of daily necessities, mainly clothing, shoes, hats, turbans, quilts, pillowcases, cushions, shawls, door curtains, tablecloths, bedspreads and so on. Chaozhou is famous for its embroidered Chaozhou opera costumes. Religious items are mostly divine robes as well as decorations in temples. Cantonese embroidery is divided by embroidery techniques, and there are silk thread embroidery, gold and silver thread embroidery, double-sided embroidery, cushion embroidery and other varieties.

Materials

Velvet Embroidery

Flat embroidery on various silks, silks, satins, with flat embroidery needlework with velvet embroidery flat picture; the subject matter is mostly birds, Bogu, used as a picture, hanging screen, and so on.

Nailed gold embroidery and mixed gold and velvet embroidery

Nailed gold embroidery, also known as gold and silver embroidery; gold and silver thread-based, velvet as a supplement called gold and velvet mixed thread. Nail gold embroidery needlework is complex, there are over the bridge, treadle needle, fishing petals, cushion, concave needle, tired hook embroidery, more than 60 kinds of needlework, including "two needle enterprise scale" needlework for other embroidery species do not have. The use of padding, embroidery, paste, spelling, embellishment and other technical processing, can produce relief-style artistic effect.

Thread embroidery

Pure silk thread plane embroidery.