Qiang Embroidery Needlework of Qiang Embroidery

Qiang embroidery products are mostly made of coarse cloth and brocade threads, with white patterns on black background and strong contrasts, and are used for the decoration of headgear, waistbands, belts, collars, corners of clothes, shoes and other places. In addition to the Qiang embroidery needlework of picking flowers, there are other embroidery methods such as flower picking, fiber flower picking, chain button picking and flat embroidery. The embroidery is delicate and meticulous; the fiber flower and the nana flower are clear and beautiful; the chain button is robust, simple and bold. However, different Qiang villages produce embroidery works of picking flowers with some slight differences in the styles and methods of needlework. In the Qiang villages, the more common embroidery techniques and needlework are "cross picking", "string picking" and "braided picking".

"Cross pick": the use of diagonal cross cross needle pattern, according to the warp and weft of the fabric under the needle, stitch exquisite, rigorous embellishment, grouping beautiful, but the work is fine and time-consuming, often small embellishments. "String pick": also known as the chain buckle, is a needle and thread pulled into a chain buckle connected to form a pattern, with the white powder painting sample pick string, "string flower" thick needle fine embellishment, composed of patterns, embellishment more labor-saving, suitable for large areas of the waist decoration. "Braiding and picking": using colorful silk threads, picking and braiding at the same time, arranging them in a dense arrangement, leaving empty space to show the pattern, braiding and picking are beautiful and generous, but they are not washed, and they are mostly applied to belts, shoe uppers, and headscarves. The composition of Qiang embroidery consists of positive flowers, side flowers, corner flowers and complementary flowers. Positive flower is the main pattern, the composition has the brocade chicken wearing peony, the lion rolling embroidered ball, auspicious bird spring, moth moth hold a hundred flowers, magpies haunting plums, monkeys picking melons, golden gourd silver lamps, auspicious plum blossoms, etc.; Side flower, corner flower is the embellishments of the four sides of the products, patterns are mostly for the two sides of the continuous pattern or triangular pattern, which has the moth moth picking flowers, the edge of the golden gourd, the lantern flowers, as well as the animal and plant motifs, embroidery, embroidery, according to the theme of the positive flowers as desired to embellish the embroidery. There are toothpicks, chandeliers, fishing flowers and so on, depending on the size of the blank to pick and embellish.

The needlework of Qiang embroidery mainly consists of several kinds of picking flowers, fiber flowers and chain buttons. The picking of flowers is delicate and meticulous, the fiber flowers, the flowers are clear and bright, the chain buckle is robust and simple, rough and bold. The color of picking flowers, black and white contrast of the majority, there are also a few color line picking; some belts are arranged in color line jagged strips, the use of flower needlework, contrast, brilliant, such as colorful rainbow neon. Cotton threads are mostly used for picking flowers, which appear simple, generous and exceptionally bright. The subjects of Qiang embroidery patterns are mostly natural scenes reflecting real life, such as flowers, plants, fruits and melons in plants, deer, lions, lest, bugs, fish, birds, and people and so on.