The History of Embroidery

Where did tattooing come from, anyway? Embroidery? When was the term born? Let's go back in history and look at the past and present life of embroidery. Embroidery? Although the word "embroidery" has not been around for a long time, the embroidery technique itself has a history almost as long as human civilization.

When it comes to the history of embroidery, it starts with tattoos. As early as the Stone Age, ancient people would use white clay, pigments or clay, grease, plant juices, to draw tattoos on their bodies and faces. The initial purpose was to make themselves look scarier, to repel wild animals, and for camouflage when hunting. Later, with the emergence of hierarchy and totem worship, painting the totem of the tribe on the body also gradually became the fashion and custom.

With the progress of the primitive tools, people found that the paint or clay applied to the body, it is easy to dry, peeling, very uncomfortable, and can not stay on the body for a long time, often need to make up the painting, an accidental discovery, inspired by the ancient people, they began to use the fish spines, animal bones made of needles, stained with those naturally pigment-rich . Plant juices or mineral pigments, stabbed into the skin for drawing and engraving, which is the oldest tattoo tattoo art, is also the most primitive form of embroidery.

With the gradual development of mankind to the civilized society, tattooing this ancient totemic art, but also got the development. But due to cultural differences, Chinese and Western tattoo art took two different paths. Western tattoos still maintain the concept of totem, and small picture, small-scale tattoos gradually rise, and the traditional big picture tattoos go hand in hand. Chinese tattoos, on the other hand, are considered a barbaric manifestation, and only people who practiced martial arts, in order to show off their valor would get tattoos, and the only ones who have preserved the ancient techniques and culture of tattooing are some ethnic minorities such as Min, Yue, Gui and Chuan. At that time, ladies who loved beauty, to modify their eyebrows or lips, or rely on charcoal sticks or red paper for modification.

Later, when the tide of reform and opening up swept across China, China's traditional concepts, especially some of the pedantic ideas were gradually cleansed, tattoos have gradually come out of the dark corners of history, see the sun. But a thousand years of prejudice is not overnight change, the people of the country see tattoos or compassionate. But it is undeniable that the technology from the West, stimulating the development of domestic tattoo, so that the ancient tattoo art evolved into a formal, systematic modern technology, but also produced a number of early tattoo talent, for tattoos to really lay the foundation for the full development.

By the early 1980s, one of the most important members of the embroidery family? Eyebrow tattoo technology was born. Ms. Zheng Mingming, Hong Kong, China, for a long time eyebrow modification can only rely on eyebrow pencil and other tools, and modification of the easy loss of color and other issues for research, she thought of the principle of tattoo technology can be applied to improve the eyebrow, so in accordance with the original tattoo, the tattoo needle tied to the chopsticks, with a needle dipped in the color pigment, according to their own eyebrow defects, the eyebrow modification, which is the original eyebrow tattoo. With the modification effect is more people recognized, eyebrow tattoo technology is also promoted, tattoo from the embryonic tattoo stage, progress to the primary stage? Tattoo eyebrows period.

In the mid-80s, with the progress and innovation of science and technology, the embroidery industry has gradually entered the era of science and technology, the invention and promotion of embroidery machine, so that has always been hand-dominated tattooing eyebrow work, to become faster, safer, so that the quality of embroidery work is also more stable, more formalized. Later on, in the 90s, the famous doctor who is known as the godfather of tattooing, was invited by the Chinese Embroidery Association. The Godfather of Embroidery? Mr. David Eyre, who is known as the godfather of embroidery. Mr. David Eyre, who first used the eyebrow tattooing machine to tattoo the traditional eyebrow tattoo pigments on the eyebrow design, defined this new technique as "painless three-dimensional simulation eyebrow tattooing". He defined this new technique as "painless three-dimensional simulation eyebrow tattooing". Later, due to the development of tattoo colors, he invented eyebrow embroidery and its upgraded technique? Soft Spin Embroidery Art Since then, eyebrow embroidery has ushered in the period of eyebrow embroidery. The embroidered eyebrow period?

In the new century of rapid progress in science and technology, embroidery technology has also been developed, embroidery with the color pigment, embroidery machine, embroidery tools upgraded, new technology? Eyebrow floating also came into being. The new technique of eyebrow fluttering was developed by Mr. David Eyre with years of experience. Mr. David E. combined with many years of experience in the field, refining and integrating the advantages of make-up styling and traditional tattooing, scientifically put forward and developed a long-lasting styling industry system, which provides a higher and newer platform for the development and enhancement of the embroidery industry in keeping with the times, and points out the direction of the industry towards the road of sustainable development. The new era of embroidery has also come. ;