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Thematic embroidery is a kind of nearly lost embroidery craft in Hebei, commonly known as "plug flower". Embroidery is one of China's outstanding national traditional crafts, which has a history of at least two to three thousand years in China. There are many types of embroidery, and this craft is a genre of embroidery, which can be called pick-up embroidery. In the embroidery family, there is a kind of embroidery in the double layer of fabric after embroidery, with a knife to cut open the double layer with its velvet (cut surface) embroidery, pick up embroidery is under the influence of this embroidery crystal development, become a member of the embroidery family. After the development of pick up embroidery is to use special needles to drive the colorful thread in the fabric according to the requirements of the picture to pick up the prick, so that the back of the fabric to form a line set, and then scissors will be cut into a line set of velvet both become. Pick up embroidery art level lies in the composition of the picture, with the line of skill, darkness and three-dimensional sense of expression. Therefore, good embroidery must have a certain art foundation.

Embroidery uses include life clothing, dance theater costumes, pillowcases, tablecloths, cushions and other household items and screens, wall hangings and other furnishings. Embroidery on double-layered fabrics, on the other hand, is mostly out of the countryside and rural areas, and is often used for the decoration and anti-wear of bibs, belts and the toes of children's shoes, which is not common nowadays.

Pick up embroidery in addition to the characteristics of embroidery, but also has embroidery can not be compared with the artistic effect. Pick up embroidery works, the image of realistic, lifelike, in addition to the available thread color and line performance works of light and dark and three-dimensional sense, can also be used to cut the line of skill to obtain three-dimensional effect. Pick up embroidery can be birds and flowers, landscapes, figure painting and other performance, and can be comparable to the Chinese painting in the brush painting. But pick up embroidery has other painting unparalleled advantages: works can be brushed, can be washed, does not fade, durable preservation, cut can be appreciated on both sides. Pick up embroidery use is very wide, not only covers the use of embroidery, but also can be embroidered small and large (as needed) birds and flowers, landscapes, figure paintings, can also be embroidered statue of God, in the middle of the hall, the wall, and even can be made into a few pick up meters long figure group painting. Pick up embroidery has a high collection value.