Where does embroidery come from?

Origin: In ancient times, embroidery was called "黹" and "针黹", but later it was also called "女红" because embroidery was mostly done by women. Embroidery originated from people's need to decorate themselves. According to history, there were records of colorful patterns during the time of the Yellow Emperor. That is to say, the ancient primitive man knew how to use color to beautify themselves.

Development: the beginning of the color painted on the body, known as the body; and then further stabbed on the body, known as tattoo, and then painted on the clothes, and then developed into embroidery on the clothing.

Embroidery: also known as "needle embroidery", commonly known as "embroidery". Embroidery needle to attract colorful thread (silk, velvet, thread), according to the design of the pattern, in the fabric (silk, cloth and silk) on the embroidery embellished with needles, embroidery constitute patterns or text, is one of China's outstanding national traditional crafts.

Brief history of development:

(1) the earliest surviving embroidery, for the Warring States period in Changsha, Hunan Province, two pieces of embroidery unearthed in the Chu tomb. View of its needlework, completely with braided strand stitch (i.e., lock embroidery) embroidered into the silk and Luo, neat stitches, color and elegant, smooth lines, will be the pattern of the dragon swimming phoenix dance, tigers and beasts, showing a natural and lively, lively and powerful, fully demonstrating the achievements of the art of embroidery in Chu.

(2) Han Dynasty embroidery, in Dunhuang Thousand Buddha Cave, Hebei Wulu Charging Tomb, northern Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Turpan Astana North Tomb have been unearthed, especially in 1972 in Changsha, Mawangdui unearthed a large number of varieties and complete embroidery, more help to understand the Han Dynasty embroidery style. From these embroideries, the Han embroidery pattern theme, mostly for the wave of clouds, soaring phoenix birds, Mercedes the beasts, as well as the common Han mirror pattern of banded flowers, geometric patterns, and so on. Embroidery of the new base material, for the popular fabrics, such as weaving into the "prolonged life and greatly suitable for children and grandchildren", "long and happy bright" and other auspicious words of silk brocade silk. The technique is based on lock-stitch embroidery, which fills in the design with a tight composition, neat stitches and extremely smooth lines.

Classic embroidery: in all embroidery, and the four famous embroidery for the classic, the four famous embroidery was formed in the mid-nineteenth century, its creation in addition to its own artistic characteristics, another important reason is the result of the commercialization of embroidery. Due to the market demand and embroidery origin of different, embroidery crafts as a commodity began to form their own local characteristics, which Su, Shu, Guangdong, Hunan, four places of the product sales is particularly wide, so there are "four famous embroidery," the name.

Craft Requirements: The craft requirements of embroidery are smooth, flush, flat, even, clean. Shun refers to the straight line straight, the curve is smooth; Qi is a neat needle trace, edge of the phenomenon of no discrepancy; Ping is accurate gestures, embroidery surface flat service, silk strands are not skewed; Uniform is the same distance between the needles, do not show the bottom, do not overlap; clean is a clean embroidery surface, no ink and other stains.

Needlework: messy needle, straight embroidery, disk needle, set of needles, brio and needle, grab the needle, flat needle, scattered wrong needle, knitting embroidery, needle, auxiliary needle, variant embroidery.