Bead embroidery is Xiamen? Xiamen bead embroidery

Xiamen bead embroidery, is a unique artistic style of decorative handicrafts. With novelty and chic, rich and magnificent, brilliant, known for more than a hundred years of history. Xiamen bead embroidery is known for its novelty, splendor and radiance, and there are more than one hundred varieties of bead slippers, bead wall charts, bead embroidery bags and so on. These products are all made of shiny, colorful glass beads and electroluminescent film, using traditional techniques such as convex embroidery, flat embroidery, string embroidery, grain embroidery, messy needle embroidery, vertical needle embroidery, laminated embroidery, etc., to embroider shallow relief patterns. The full-bead pattern is rigorous, dense and needle-free; the half-bead pattern is elegant and beautiful, fresh and pleasing to the eye.

Bead embroidery originated in the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the craft was gradually lost after liberation. Its exquisite design, strong color contrast, after professional embroiderers will be a variety of colors of beads by hand sewing and become, with a unique decorative techniques and artistic style, its beads, crystal gorgeous, novel and chic, colorful and bright, by the refraction of light and embossed effect, is the ideal high-grade fashion gifts, interior decorations for modern life.　Bead embroidery adopts colorful glass beads and electroluminescent sheets as raw materials, and uses a variety of stitches and techniques to make the products with brilliant beads and colorful embroidery. There are two kinds of bead embroidery: half-bead embroidery and full-bead embroidery.　Xiamen bead embroidery craft has a history of nearly a hundred years, as early as the early 1920s, some overseas Chinese from overseas brought back some glass beads embellished with embroidered slippers, Xiamen folk shoemakers look at the love, inspired by, managed to bring back some glass beads from Japan, Nanyang, began to try to embroider all kinds of flowers and birds on the upper. As a result, Xiamen bead slippers became popular.　In the 1920s, Datong Road almost became a street of bead drag, "living source leather company" imported from overseas velvet, glass beads and other materials, employing some folk artists to make all kinds of slippers, in addition to domestic sales, but also began to export to Southeast Asia. To the 1950s, Xiamen will be folk artists together, the formation of Xiamen bead embroidery slippers factory, specializing in the production of bead embroidery and bead slippers.

Xiamen bead embroidery slippers factory production of bead embroidery slippers exported to Asia, Europe, the United States more than 50 countries or regions. In the first Beijing International Fair held in July 1989, the crystal brand pearl slippers produced by the factory won the gold medal award. The main raw materials of pearl embroidery are glass beads, electro-optical film and velvet. Its process is to embroider shallow relief patterns using traditional techniques such as convex embroidery, flat embroidery, string embroidery, grain embroidery, messy needle embroidery, vertical embroidery, and stacked piece embroidery.

Edit paragraph Zhangzhou old woman wants to revitalize Xiamen bead embroidery

In the 1970s and 1980s, bead embroidery slippers, bags were Xiamen, Zhangzhou, the specialty crafts, popular at home and abroad. But now the craft has almost been lost, and the Zhangzhou woman wants to revive Xiamen bead embroidery

. Deng Caiduan's head is filled with more than 1,000 kinds of bead embroidery patterns, seventy-year-old woman Deng Caiduan wants to inject 200,000 yuan of funds to revitalize the craft....　Bead drag embroidery is extremely delicate, some of the shoes purely embroidered with glass beads, some of the velvet surface with colored beads embroidered with rare birds and flowers and other colorful patterns, brilliant and colorful, especially for nighttime wear, in the light irradiation, glittering, nobility. Color end of the year is Zhangzhou Xiangkou bead embroidery factory director, every year to design more than 100 kinds of patterns to participate in the Canton Fair, 10 years down the road, her head loaded with thousands of patterns, and even do not have to draw a draft, pick up the needle to embroider a new picture. She put the slippers on the stairway of the hotels, many foreigners picked up the slippers and loved them, Deng Caiduan, who doesn't speak English, then pulled them into the exhibition hall and asked the interpreter to introduce them, and the orders came in thick and fast. Xiangkou Bead Embroidery Factory produced "Yujing Brand" bead embroidered slippers were named "Fujian Famous Shoes", Caiduan also won the "Provincial Labor Model", "38 Red Flag Woman" and other honors.

Cai Duan also won the "provincial labor model", "thirty-eight red flag" and other honors.

"Today is popular retro style, with the improvement of the home environment, bead embroidery slippers will be loved, can become a special tourist crafts in Xiamen and Zhangzhou. As long as there are funds injected to bring the sisters of the year together to revive this craft." .

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Xie Liyu, intangible cultural heritage - Xiamen bead embroidery art inheritor, Zhengren - bead embroidery art studio in charge.