Beijing Embroidery

The silk weaving industry in Beijing began to flourish in the Tang Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Liao Dynasty, when Yanjing had a special "Embroidery Academy". Most of the clothes unearthed from the Liao tombs were embroidered with exquisite flowers and birds, especially the embroidery of the whole flower, large peony flowers, embroidery and novelty, "Khitan State Records" said Yanjing: "Embroidery group Cherry, the world's finest".

Since the Yuan Dynasty, Beijing embroidery has used gold and silver threads for embroidery to show its splendor and preciousness. The gold thread is hammered foil and twisted thread with gold, which is a precious material and complicated process, and this embroidery method is rarely seen in the embroideries of other regions. Since the Ming Dynasty, Beijing embroidery needlework techniques, materials, patterns and other characteristics are increasingly distinctive. Qing Dynasty Beijing embroidery is more prosperous, the Guangxu period, Beijing embroidery is more famous at home and abroad, the capital emerged dozens of embroidery manor, outside the front door of the Lotus Lane Xihuying Embroidery Street, became a collection of Beijing embroidery products.

Beijing embroidery is one of the earlier generation of embroidery school, centered in Beijing, radiation Hebei, Tianjin and other surrounding provinces and municipalities. Although Beijing embroidery came from the northern folk, it was greatly influenced by Suzhou embroidery in the Qing Dynasty, especially in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, in addition to the different influences of Hunan embroidery, Cantonese embroidery and Shu embroidery, thus Beijing embroidery has taken the strengths of all the families in the modern times, and became the head of all the families at one time. Historically, a large amount of Beijing embroidery was mainly used for the costumes of the emperors and marquises in the palace, and thus Beijing embroidery was also called palace embroidery. In the Beijing embroidery process, is the first gold and silver thread to disk into a pattern, and then use the color line embroidery fixed in the textile plane, this embroidery method is unique in China embroidery, each piece of Beijing embroidery craft are showing the royal style, gold and blue, precious and rare.