What are the masterpieces of Shu embroidery?

Shu embroidery (masterpiece "Hibiscus Carp")

Shu embroidery, also known as "Sichuan embroidery", the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Shu embroidery has formed a professional production, Chengdu City, there are a lot of embroidery store, both embroidery and sale. Shu embroidery to soft satin and colored silk as the main raw material. It is most famous for embroidering soft satin quilt tops with dragons and phoenixes and the traditional product "Hibiscus Carp". Shu embroidery has vivid images, bright colors, three-dimensional sense, short needles and fine, flush stitches, bright piece of thread, rich changes, with strong local characteristics.

Related Content of Shu Embroidery

Shu Embroidery, along with Suzhou Embroidery, Hunan Embroidery, and Cantonese Embroidery, is one of the Four Famous Embroideries of China, and is a traditional Chinese craft of embroidering floral designs on silk or other fabrics using silk threads. As one of the embroideries with the longest inheritance in China, Shu embroidery has formed its own unique flavor with its bright and clear colors and exquisite and delicate stitches, and its richness ranks first among the four famous embroideries.

Shu embroidery themes are mostly birds and flowers, animals, landscapes, insects and fish, people, in addition to the ancient famous paintings such as Su Dongpo's strange stone clusters, Zheng Banqiao's bamboo and stone, Chen Laolian's characters, etc. for the powder, and then asked the famous artists to design the embroidery by the embroidery craftsmen to process the re-creation of a masterpiece.

Embroidery popular patterns both landscape flowers and birds, Bogu, dragons and phoenixes, Wawen, ancient money, and folklore, such as the Eight Immortals across the sea, Magu to offer longevity, xiaojiao attracted the phoenix, the unicorn to send a son, etc., but also a metaphor for the magpies and plums, mandarin ducks playing in the water, Jade full of water, phoenix through the peony, etc., rich in rich local characteristics of the pattern such as hibiscus carp, bamboo horse chicken, landscape panda flowers and birds and other people also are also favored by people in the East and West.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Shu Embroidery