Qiang Embroidery: Love stitches are endless

A song, "Chang embroidery," sings slowly and gently from the bottom of it, like a flower slowly opening, like a feather gently stroking. The melodious and refreshing melody took the listener into the Furong City and approached the treasure of Qianzhong, Qianxiu. Now, let us enjoy the embroidery of Oriental treasures.

First, the introduction of embroidery

Qiang Embroidery, also known as "Chuan Xiu," is a general name for embroidery products centered in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The subject of embroidery is mostly flowers, birds, beasts, landscapes, insect fish, and characters. In addition to the pure embroidery screen, there are quilt covers, pillowcases, clothes, shoes, cushions, tablecloths, scarves, handkerchiefs, and painting screens. Both huge screens and small pockets are exquisite works of art that are both ornamental and practical. Qiang Embroidery is a bright pearl in the promenade of China's arts and crafts. It is embroidered with Suzhou embroidery, Xiang embroidery, and Guangdong embroidery for the four famous Chinese embroideries. It has a long history and unique techniques.

Second, the embroidery source

Embroidery originated from Zhou, Xing Han, Sheng Song. The dragon pattern on the bronze statue costume unearthed in the “Sanxingdui” site in Guanghan is embroidered, according to which it has been estimated that Qiang embroidery has a history of more than 3,000 years. In the Han Dynasty, the reputation of Qiang Embroidery was all over the world, and Yang Xiong’s poem “Zibubu” expressed high praise for the embroidery skills. From the Song Dynasty to the time of the Song Dynasty, Qiang Embroidery developed to its peak period. The name of Qiang Embroidery spread all over China, and was praised as "a very poor worker."

Third, Qiang embroidery art style

The artistic style of Qiang embroidery can be summarized as follows: rigorous and delicate acupuncture, graceful and elegant colors, beautiful and smooth lines, and the style of Chinese ink painting.

Fourth, the embroidery process features

1. Embroidered with soft satin and color silk as the main raw materials, its embroidery techniques are very unique, and at least 100 kinds of elaborate stitches are used.

2. The unique style of rigorous and exquisite, bright and smooth, concise and concise, mellow, bright and colorful.

3. The embroidery embroidery method is flexible, and different production procedures, color matching and threading can be used according to the needs of the embroidery.

4. The splendid embroidery thread method provides smooth light, neat stitches, rigorous needle application, soft color and gentle twisting of the vehicle, vividness and vigor.

5. The theme of embroidery embroidery has many virtues and strong folk colors.

6. Embroidered embroidery includes three categories: single-sided, double-sided, and double-sided.