The Cultural Heritage of Bead Embroidery

A bland white knitwear, you began to hate it is really ordinary and boring. So wear tasteless, discarded "chicken ribs" clothes may have crowded a considerable part of your valuable closet, is it possible to make it back to become your new favorite? Smart girl immediately picked up the needle and thread began "DIY", almost into the "cold palace" of the white jersey was embroidered on a small rose, even with no exaggerated color of the black beads, a needle and a line between, white jersey immediately! The white knitwear was immediately "changed" between one stitch and one line. Beads embroidered flowers, so that the fabric is a plane presents a three-dimensional relief-like visual effect, in the refraction of the sun, black beads more radiate glitter, and became the highlight of the attention.

Nice, let the "chicken ribs" clothes regain new life, rely on is "bead embroidery" this magic trick. Since the linen, woolen, silk fabrics, clothing and apparel, people began to embroider totem patterns on the clothes, pre-Qin literature has a vegetarian Zhu embroidered "gun clothes embroidered clothes" said. "Bead embroidery" belongs to one of the four famous embroideries in China, "Guangdong embroidery", "Chao embroidery", bead embroidery is an embroidery embellishment floating on the fabric, relying on the beads, sequins of the flash of color and a strong expressive power, sharp glossy feeling is the best way to make the bead embroidery. Expressive, distinctive gloss is one of its main features, in which the embroidery thread is not the main form of expression, but to play the role of embroidery embellishment.

Chaoshan embroidery used to be the pillar industry of Chaoshan economy, embroidery shop everywhere, many artists, skill excellence. But Chaozhou embroidery artists inheritance is rare, the value of Chaozhou embroidery artifacts in the doubling. Fortunately, the former Chaozhou costume factory, Chaozhou embroidery factory through the "three to one" trade, the development of bead embroidery fashion, with pearls, glass beads or sequins nailed to the silk material, the traditional embroidery technology in time grafted to the design of fashionable clothing, so that the ancient bead embroidery technology gradually renewed the vitality of the new day. Nowadays, bead embroidery is widely used in the design of products such as hanging screens, clothes, costumes, backpacks, colorful hangings, colorful enclosures and colorful hall supplies. With the gradual rise of the "new luxury" trend, bead embroidery and fashion is the marriage of the wind when strong.

CHIC2007, there is a special booth let a person unforgettable to Chaozhou bead embroidery as the main design process of the Guangdong Sundial clothing launched a series of refreshing bead embroidery fashion, the exhibition of the fall and winter products are mainly divided into soft diffuse such as the Poetry Series, the ancient myths series, the simple geometric series and the metal era series, try to use bead embroidery, Chao embroidery, machine embroidery, Gu embroidery, ribbon embroidery, appliqué embroidery, carving embroidery and other products design, and so on.

According to the Queen of Mai, Ms. Zhang Jingyi, the materials used in bead-embroidered fashions include silk double crepe, silk georgette, crepe satin, and polyester silk imitation silk fabrics. Embellished with bead embroidery silk fabrics soft and flowing, shiny and dynamic. Embellished with beads on wool, woolen fabrics, because the wool is not light, and the flash of beads to form a strong contrast, a strong flash effect to increase the sense of eye-catching and bright. Bead embroidery fashion production is generally the first draft printed on the fabric, and then on the bandage embroidery, embroidery into a good finishing, and then cutting, locking, on the clothes, on different fabrics using different string hanging techniques. High-grade heavy work or just a small amount of embellishment on the embroidered clothes. Light work or only do a small amount of embellishment on the clothing, embroidery-based, beading is the focus of a small embellishment. Unfortunately, so full of mysterious and intimate bead embroidery craft, even in the bead embroidery craft is prevalent in the Chaoshan region, proficient in this way of folk artisans have been few. The shortage of bead embroidery craftsmen has become the biggest obstacle to the achievement of the luxury status of clothing and the realization of high value-added.

To this end, Yao Zhanwu, president of Guangdong Sundia Clothing Co., Ltd, said: Sundia will cooperate with the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, which has 48 years of experience in research and development, to set up an internship base for related teaching and research. College designers with keen market sense will also join in the design of bead embroidery fashion, so that the traditional bead embroidery craft on the new face of fashion, through the analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the enterprise brand, systematic market research and market trend prediction, to explore the clothing will be the integration of traditional national culture and modern dress culture, artistic design and high-tech combination of **** with the research and development of endangered Chao Shan beads with Chinese national characteristics. Chinese national characteristics of Chaoshan bead embroidery technology, so that it can be better inherited and carried forward.