Fabric: the artistic charm from ancient costume to modern home.

Cloth is a treasure in China folk arts and crafts. It integrates folk paper-cutting, embroidery and production skills, showing its unique artistic charm. This paper will discuss the history and modern application of cloth art in order to help readers better understand this folk craft.

Ancient dress decoration

In ancient times, fabric was mainly used to decorate daily necessities such as clothing, shoes, hats, bed curtains, bags and so on, such as headscarves, sachets, fan belts, purses and handkerchiefs. These fabrics are not only beautiful and elegant, but also enhance the strength and wear resistance of the fabrics.

modern art

Nowadays, the meaning of fabric has been extended. A product that takes cloth as the main material and achieves certain artistic effects through artistic processing to meet people's daily needs can be called cloth art ... Both traditional handmade cloth art and modern cloth art furniture can be naturally integrated into modern decoration, adding warmth and comfort to people's living space.

Important elements of home decoration

In order to create a perfect home space, fabric is one of the most important elements in home decoration. With the improvement of people's living standards, pure functional space can no longer satisfy people's spiritual pursuit. Through perfect design techniques, the artistic conception of the space to be expressed is presented in the whole space, so that the whole space can satisfy people's material pursuit and spiritual pursuit, which is the charm of home furnishings.

Ancient fabrics

China ancient cloth art was superb, mainly including embroidery, embroidery and applique. There are many kinds of embroidery methods, such as laying needles, plain needles, scattered needles, punching, inlaying buttons, gold plating, braiding embroidery, lock embroidery and so on. However, the pattern picking requires that the cross with equal distance and length be embroidered in strict accordance with the longitude and latitude lines of the fabric to form various patterns. Cloth stickers are made of small pieces of cloth with different colors and spliced into various patterns. This embroidery technique is also called "mending flowers".

Artistic feature

In China, cloth art has been handed down from generation to generation, which combines people's understanding and desire for life, pours endless wisdom and shows distinctive artistic features.