Types of Embroidery

The types of embroidery are Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery and Cantonese embroidery.

Su embroidery has a history of more than 2,000 years, and in the Song Dynasty it had already taken on a considerable scale. In Suzhou, there were workshops where production was concentrated, such as the Embroidered Clothes Workshop, Embroidery Lane, Rolling Embroidery Workshop, and Embroidery Thread Alley. Hunan embroidery is a general term for embroidery centered in Changsha, Hunan Province. The special disheveled needles are used to embroider animals such as lions and tigers, which are powerful and majestic.

Shu embroidery, also known as "Sichuan embroidery", is a general term for embroidery centered in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is best known for its embroidered dragon and phoenix soft satin quilt tops and the traditional product "Hibiscus Carp". Cantonese embroidery is a general term for Canton embroidery and Chao embroidery, and the craftsmanship level of Guangdong embroidery in the Tang Dynasty was already extraordinary. Museums in Britain, France, Germany and the United States all have collections of Cantonese embroidery.

Embroidery:

Country embroidery, also known as silk embroidery and needle embroidery, is one of China's outstanding national traditional crafts. China is the earliest country in the world to discover and use silk, and people began raising silkworms and reeling silk four or five thousand years ago. With the use of silk, the creation and development of silk fabrics, the embroidery craft also gradually emerged.

According to "Shangshu", as far back as more than 4000 years ago, the chapter clothing system, it is stipulated that "clothing painting and clothing embroidery". To the Zhou Dynasty, there are "embroidery and multi-color **** job" records. Hubei and Hunan excavations of the Warring States, the two Han Dynasty embroidery, the level is very high. Tang and Song Dynasty embroidery needle even fine, colorful, prevalent with embroidery for painting and calligraphy, ornaments, etc..

Ming and Qing dynasties, the feudal court embroidery on a large scale, folk embroidery has been further developed, has produced Su embroidery, Guangdong embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Shu embroidery, known as the "Four Famous Embroideries".