How is the appreciation of traditional Chinese embroidery?

Embroidery in China has more than 2,000 years of history, is the needle and thread on the fabric embroidered with a variety of decorative patterns of the general term, in addition to the imperial court embroidery, while in the folk have appeared in many local embroidery, the famous Lu embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, Hunan embroidery and so on, Beijing embroidery, Suzhou embroidery, Shu embroidery, etc., with their own local characteristics. In recent years, with the formation of the commercialization of embroidery art, the market demand continues to expand, embroidery art collection value also began to highlight, and triggered a wave of embroidery art investment boom, triggering Chinese collectors to collect first.

From the previous domestic embroidery art market, the market price of embroidery works in thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, but in recent years, the rate of increase is amazing, a piece of work hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even millions of dollars abound. First of all, good embroidery works have been upgraded from the category of handicrafts for the collection of works of art level, investors are precisely in the embroidery works of art of the broad prospects for appreciation.

Because of the embroidery works collection has only begun to rise, most of the collectors of embroidery art is still not well understood, in the investment of such collectibles need to be more cautious. How to evaluate a piece of work worth collecting, from the artistic point of view, economic point of view and collection point of view comments.

Currently, the so-called embroidery art on the collector's market, although the use of artificial embroidery, but the level of embroidery authors are uneven, most of them are not art painting skills of the embroidery, art university graduates are even fewer and farther between. So most of the works on the market are first printed on silk canvas original painting, and then the embroiderer followed the gourd to fill the embroidery line, and from the embroidery line between the distance intentionally left to reveal the printed painting, mainly by the printed backing to show the effect of these works should be considered embroidery works? Or print painting?

Again, because there is only a layer of embroidery thread, embroidery thread color between the color of the transition color, the content of the work of the image is dull, the picture lacks spirit and artistic vitality, can only be considered as a level of crafts, can not be achieved at the level of works of art, not to mention the value of the collection.

Because most embroiderers do not have art painting skills and embroidery techniques on the limitations of the choice of subjects from the realistic works, but also mutual imitation, copying; works on the theme of the choice of only characters, there is no background, (a single-color background) intentionally to avoid the more difficult works, such as; multi-layered, rich in content, dynamic and so on. Resulting in works of monotonous content, a single level, the scene is narrow, the lack of artistic ornamental value, greatly reducing the value of the collection; however, claimed that this is to highlight the key points, misleading collectors.

To really reach the level of collection of embroidery art, first of all, the work is original or innovative components of the best, and the embroidery process is not purely artificial instead of machine, and the need for the embroiderer is full of a kind of emotion and passion with the needle and thread in the silk cloth "painting" out, with the embroidery effect, three-dimensional, layered distinctive, the work of the Objects texture realistic, which requires embroidery authors have a certain degree of art painting skills to do.