Zhangzhou embroidery skills

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Zhangzhou embroidery products, commonly known as Zhangzhou embroidery, originated in the Ming Dynasty. The best clothing is embroidered brocade robes. Zhangzhou embroidery is one of the three famous crafts in the history of Chinese weaving. It was well-known at home and abroad during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After the Qing Dynasty, with the increasing development of transportation and the opening of Guyue Port's maritime trade, Zhangzhou embroidery developed rapidly and formed a large production scale. During the Republic of China, there were dozens of workshops in Zhangzhou operating the embroidery industry, and the largest ones could accommodate thousands of embroiderers. Zhangzhou embroidery craftsmanship is passed down in the form of family learning, from mother to daughter, from sister-in-law to aunt, and from rural clans to each other. Girls learn to embroider handkerchiefs and shoe uppers with continuous lines from an early age. Zhangzhou embroidery has many exquisite techniques, rigorous composition, vivid expressions, gorgeous colors, and a strong decorative flavor. There are more than 70 kinds of stitches in Zhangzhou embroidery, including wrapping stitch, buckle stitch, pasting stitch, even stitch, grabbing stitch, nailing gold, double-sided stitch, bridge stitch, overlapping stitch, overlapping stitch, flat embroidery, set embroidery, pasting embroidery, hollow seed embroidery, and convex embroidery. Each stitch has different uses, and some stitches can be mixed. The purpose is to achieve clear color layers, reasonable inlay colors, and smooth color connection, so that the work can achieve a bright and bright artistic effect that looks like carving but not carving. The best ones are bright, bright, even, dense, clean, clean, and convex. In addition, Zhangzhou embroidery uses folk paper-cutting as embroidery drafts, and most of the embroidery drafts are from the hands of famous painters. The themes of Zhangzhou embroidery include dragons and phoenixes, figures, animals, flowers, and antiques, and dragons and phoenixes are its main themes. The artistic characteristics of Zhangzhou embroidery are exquisite and novel composition, beautiful and realistic images, vivid expressions, and colorful and magnificent colors. The "golden onion" thread used in Zhangzhou embroidery is its characteristic, and the stitches are varied, with "hollow seed embroidery" and "convex gold embroidery" as its strengths. In particular, the gold thread embroidery, single embroidery and double-sided embroidery are finely crafted, with distinct layers, strong three-dimensionality and obvious relief effects. The dragons and phoenixes embroidered with gold thread are lifelike, with the momentum of "rising from the clouds and mist", and are vividly displayed in front of people. Today, the products of Zhangzhou Embroidery Factory have developed from traditional horizontal decorations, table curtains and opera robes to decorative daily necessities mainly for export.

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