What is the meaning of patchwork?

Flowering is a craft of sewing colorful pieces of cloth or velvet onto pillowcases, tablecloths, children's clothing, etc. to form a pattern of flowers and birds.

With cut into various shapes of cotton, linen, silk flowers pasted on the backing fabric, composed of patterns, sewn and become. Belong to the embroidery category. Raw materials used in patchwork are cotton, linen, silk and so on. Beijing's phoenix-tail yarn, is a thin, light to dark color halo cotton, especially suitable for complementary flowers in the cut flowers.

The process of flower patching is as follows: flower cutting: cut the fabric into various shapes of flower pieces according to the drawing. Paste: the flower pieces pasted on the base fabric to form a pattern. Toggle flower: the flower piece of the hairy edge of the needle toggle nest into the requirements of the edges and corners of the neat. Sewing is also known as locking. Lock the flower piece around the full with a locking needle, washing and ironing.

The history of Chinese patchwork can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, when silk was piled up on silk.

Duplicate damask is made of damask or other silk fabrics cut into various shapes, through the pile, stacked, combined into a multi-layered pattern of flowers, figures; some also lined with small pieces of fabric under the pattern, so that the pattern of raised, high and low order, with the artistic effect of relief. Stick silk is a single layer of silk fabric cut into patterns and then flat paste, and some also to sew the edge. At the end of the Ming and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the pile of damask and paste silk were once prevalent in Beijing.

China's modern patchwork craft is based on the inheritance of the traditional pile of damask and paste silk craft, and absorbed the strengths of Western lace and formed. The main places of origin are Beijing, Changshu in Jiangsu Province and Shantou in Guangdong Province.