Gelao Traditional Folk Crafts: Gelao Embroidery

Gelao people are an ancient people who are hardworking and love beauty, and also a people who value and admire culture, which is fully reflected i

Gelao Traditional Folk Crafts: Gelao Embroidery

Gelao people are an ancient people who are hardworking and love beauty, and also a people who value and admire culture, which is fully reflected in their consistent costumes and harmonious patterns. The Gelao people are divided into 14 branches according to their costumes, which belong to two branches: those who wear bucket skirts advocate bamboo and those who don't wear bucket skirts advocate birds.

Since ancient times, Gelao women have used embroidery to decorate their clothes, which is recorded in the Hundred Miao Tu of the Ming Dynasty in Guizhou Province. Gelao embroidery has exquisite craftsmanship, bright colors, simple patterns and reasonable layout. Embroidery methods are mainly Ping Xiu and flower picking. The color lines are mainly red, yellow, blue, cyan and green.

brief introduction

The embroidery of Gelao girls has its own unique style in stitch, color and pattern. Among them, picking flowers is the most distinctive. Embroidery methods include frame embroidery, swimming embroidery, shuttle embroidery and pick embroidery. Embroidery is the embroidery of several yarns. A needle is used to embroider three yarns in the horizontal direction and three yarns in the vertical direction on the diagonal of a square to form a cross, and then many small crosses with the same size and specifications are erected with colored lines of different colors to form various patterns. Deep embroidery is the way of needle embroidery, which embroiders the outline according to the pattern drawn by the base cloth, and then fills in the content with the needle.

Shuttle embroidery uses embroidery needles to fly along the warp and weft of embroidered cloth. The embroidery thread is exposed when it is hidden. First, a mesh pattern is formed, and then a small pattern is formed in the mesh gap with embroidery threads of different colors, so that there are flowers in the flowers. Embroidery stitch, the stitch distance is long or short, sometimes only half a yarn is connected, which is also a stitch, which can make the figure more detailed and complete.

Embroidery patterns can be flowers, landscapes, Lany and various lovely animals in the surrounding environment. Gelao girls have been embroidering since primary school, embroidering various patterns on vamps, waists, belts, garters, lace of clothes and trousers, curtains, door curtains, pillows, skirts, purses, handkerchiefs, purses and back fans, which embodies the aesthetic consciousness of Gelao culture.

brief introduction

The embroidery of Gelao girls has its own unique style in stitch, color and pattern. Among them, picking flowers is the most distinctive. Embroidery methods include frame embroidery, swimming embroidery, shuttle embroidery and pick embroidery. Embroidery is the embroidery of several yarns. A needle is used to embroider three yarns in the horizontal direction and three yarns in the vertical direction on the diagonal of a square to form a cross, and then many small crosses with the same size and specifications are erected with colored lines of different colors to form various patterns. Deep embroidery is the way of needle embroidery, which embroiders the outline according to the pattern drawn by the base cloth, and then fills in the content with the needle.

Shuttle embroidery uses embroidery needles to fly along the warp and weft of embroidered cloth. The embroidery thread is exposed when it is hidden. First, a mesh pattern is formed, and then a small pattern is formed in the mesh gap with embroidery threads of different colors, so that there are flowers in the flowers. Embroidery stitch, the stitch distance is long or short, sometimes only half a yarn is connected, which is also a stitch, which can make the figure more detailed and complete. Embroidery patterns can be flowers, landscapes, Lany and various lovely animals in the surrounding environment. Gelao girls have been embroidering since primary school, embroidering various patterns on vamps, waists, belts, garters, lace of clothes and trousers, curtains, door curtains, pillows, skirts, purses, handkerchiefs, purses and back fans, which embodies the aesthetic consciousness of Gelao culture.