What are the fabrics used for embroidery

The fabrics used for embroidery are silk and cloth.

Embroidery is one of China's outstanding national traditional crafts, in which embroidery needles are used to draw colorful threads (silk, velvet, and threads), and embroidery stitches are applied to fabrics (silk, cloth, and silk) according to the designed pattern to form patterns or words.

Anciently known as "黹" and "针黹", later embroidery was mostly done by women, so it is also known as "women's red", according to Hubei and Hunan unearthed in the Warring States, the two Han Dynasty embroideries, the level of are very high.

Tang and Song Dynasty embroidery needle even fine, rich in color, prevalent with embroidery for painting and calligraphy, ornaments, etc.. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the feudal court embroidery on a large scale, folk embroidery has been further developed, has produced Su embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery, known as the "Four Famous Embroideries".

Embroidery industry market is red-hot, but also make people impatient. A piece of work auctioned at a high price, will inevitably lead to a swarm of imitation, follow the trend, which in turn reduces the overall artistic standards.

For example, the first Su embroidery, mostly used to embroider Chinese and Western paintings "messy needle embroidery" can be seen everywhere today, but due to the lack of understanding of many embroiderers of Chinese paintings, oil paintings, etc., there is no painting foundation and aesthetic training, it is difficult to deal with the relationship between light and shadow, shade, color changes, and other relationships, embroidery industry designers are seriously short of embroidery works. Most of the embroidery can not stand up to scrutiny, embroidered portraits often appear mouth oblique, nose crooked and other shapes.

In addition to the decline in artistic standards due to market impatience, traditional embroidery is also facing a lack of raw materials, accessories and other supporting a huge problem. Nantong Textile Vocational and Technical Institute of Embroidery Curator, Shen Shou embroidery heir Zhang Lei said, embroidery to use tightly woven taffeta and color stability, detailed 16 or 24 colors of good silk threads, now it is difficult to buy;

A variety of embroidery needles required for the length of each, each with a "subtle" embroidery needles, and now most of them can only be found in Japan, Hong Kong and other places. In Japan, Hong Kong and other places to find; good works of "three embroidery seven framing", embroidery is best handmade framing, and nowadays the prevalence of machine framing, excellent handmade framing masters are increasingly difficult to find.

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