What are the classic works of traditional Su embroidery?

Su embroidery is known as "Painting Embroidery" because it is historically famous for painting, and has been closely related to painting since the Song Dynasty, and has been influenced by the fashion of the painting world in various historical periods. So, what are the representative works of Su embroidery?

Suzhou embroidery

1. Bird and flower embroidery. Flower and bird embroidery is the traditional works of Su embroidery. Boudoir art embroidery in the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of the flowers and birds as the subject matter. After the founding of New China, on the basis of inheriting the best traditions, a lot of embroidery ornamental products with the content of birds and flowers, representative works are "Birds in the Phoenix", "Pine Age and Crane Life", "Peacock Peony", "White Phoenix", "White Peacock", "Spring Map", "Spring Return", "Marshmallow Double Ducks", "Chestnut Chickens", "Lotus Kingfisher", and "Moon Seasons", "Peonies" and so on, which were embroidered with oil painting scripts.

"White Peacock" Ye Wenting and other embroidery

The embroidered surface of the white peacock as the main body, red cliffs, ink bamboo set off, the use of loose sets, oblique winding, rolling needle, brio and needle a variety of needle embroidery, not only to make the white peacock each white, beautiful feathers such as the breeze, and glossy, rich in texture, each of the slender feathers and down are handled meticulously, showing the rigor of the needle and the delicacy. Each and every delicate feather and down is handled meticulously, showing the rigorous and delicate stitching. The peacock's eyes are embroidered with very short lines of swirling needles, making its gaze flashing and extremely mesmerizing. The whole embroidery surface is smooth and even, lively, like a real white peacock standing on the steep red cliffs, backed by bamboo, head to the sun, the whole body radiates a silver-white light, elegant and quiet, lifelike.

"Pine Age Crane Life" Wang Baozhen embroidered

The embroidered surface of the ten cranes are arranged in a different way, some of the neck is always crying, some of the low head mouthing the feet, and some of the pitching and turning sideways, neat and change, static in the movement, static and dynamic combination.

"Spring returns to the earth" Wu Jinfeng and other embroidery

"Spring returns to the earth" by the twelve famous painters in North and South China *** with the painting, the use of virtual and real needles, scattered sets of needles and other needlework, fine embroidery of flowers competing in the scenery, beautiful flowers blossoming in the wind, flowers like a mosaic of flowers, thriving, beautiful flowers, branches and leaves, there are called to respond to the wind and the brush and punch and coloring of the elegant and clean, with a natural The coloring is elegant and clean, with a natural sense of fun.

Su embroidery. Cat

Kittens and goldfish are the traditional themes of Su embroidery, embroidery cat is mainly embroidered ears, nose, eyes and other parts of the fine embroidery, in the smallest place to see the work. Especially the cat's eyes, the embroiderer to use 26 different colors of silk thread, one or two short stitches inlaid with color, the kitten's furry hair is divided into a flower line forty-eight percent of the fine line, and then from the virtual to the real, from shallow to deep, layer by layer embroidery.

Su embroidery. Fish

2. Portrait embroidery. Portrait embroidery is the most difficult work in Su embroidery, to real photography and painting for embroidery, not only requires both God and shape, and demeanor, expression should be different from person to person, to embroider vivid and realistic, but also exquisite, requires a high degree of combination of skill and art.

Su embroidery "years like a song"

Embroidery portrait, first of all, to master the outline, including the outline of the shape and the parts of the small outline (including bones, muscle tissue structure, dark and light color levels). Secondly, we must master the color, the basic color of the character's face block bottom, at the same time pay attention to the proportion of dark and light colors, the bright part of the block should be clear, the dark part is vague, the intersection with the intermediate part of the color mixing. Third, master the line, paving the bottom of the color bar should be thick, layers of color tends to fine lines, between the block, the big outline and the background of the junction, the line should be different from each other, the line is long, short, thick and thin depending on the embroidery surface object different and change.

Su embroidery portrait "Queen of England" Yao Jianping embroidered?

The Queen of England is based on a photo of Elizabeth II, drawing on the principle of perspective in painting, "using the needle as a pen and silk as ink", from the initial conception to the final completion of the work, which took 14 months before and after, using more than 1,000 colors of silk thread.

Tradition is the source of the development of Suzhou embroidery techniques, and only by not sticking to tradition, closely combining with the lifestyle of modern society, the needs of the times, the art trend, and constantly innovating, can the tradition of the art of Suzhou embroidery remain wonderfully youthful and flourish.

Suzhou Jiao Gu Embroidery Art Co., Ltd. was founded in 2009, ten years focus on research and development, design and customization of high-end handmade embroidery, Jiao Gu design and production of embroidery products have won a number of national awards, and has been made a number of state gifts to the dignitaries at home and abroad.