Shu embroidery

"Fortunately, it's covered by a glass cabinet. Otherwise, after three days of display, the fur on the little white cat's body will be completely plucked."

Sangzi couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion, and continued to speak: "I've heard people say that Shu embroidery is much better at embroidering small animals than other embroidery, and can bring flowers, birds, fish and insects to life.

I have never believed it. I think that Shu embroidery can do things that even our realist Hunan embroidery can’t do. The so-called embroidery is alive, but it’s just somewhat resemblance.

But now that I saw this cat, I realized that I still have too little knowledge.Sister Ziyu, is that the needle you just mentioned?Can you know, why don't you teach me? "

Sang Zi really likes this cat very much, and really wants to keep it for himself, but it is from the collection of Sichuan Provincial Museum, so even if you spend money, you may not be able to buy it.

Since you can't get it, then find a way to learn to do it. After you learn this stitch, what kind of cats and dogs will not be able to embroider?
While talking, Xiao Suan began to fight, and stretched out his hand to take Ziyu's arm, coquettishly affectionately.

"Well, I know it, but I'm not very proficient, but I do know that there is a person who is particularly good at this aspect, but she is not very easy to get along with, and she has never brought disciples. I just don't know if you have the courage to do it. Try it?" Ziyu said with a smile.

"Who? Tell me quickly. I'll pester her to let her teach me. If it doesn't work, I will worship him as my teacher. No matter what, I must learn this magical skill of bringing cat hair to life." Sangzi is real Wanting to learn wholeheartedly, how could she be willing to miss out on such a powerful skill for a person who wanted to gather the strengths of a hundred schools of thought, so she hurriedly asked.

Although Shen Chuqing also wanted to learn, she had no intention of asking someone else to be her teacher. She just quietly looked at the cat and walked around the glass cabinet.

The double-sided embroidered white cats of different shapes and colors, although the expressions and postures of the front and back are different, but they can be recognized as a cat at a glance.

Although Shen Chuqing had also done double-sided embroidery, compared to the one in front of her, the one she embroidered looked like it was made by a three-year-old child.

Going a little farther to look at it, it gave people a feeling that it was not an embroidered face, but a living cat locked in a glass cabinet.

"The person I'm talking about is not only proficient in applying hair needles, but also the scale armor embroidery method, especially the one-handed armor needle, which can embroider all birds and animals to life.

Come and take a look at this satin mattress. The body of the phoenix on it is the outline of the scaly feathers drawn out by Rajachen, and then filled with needles, so that the whole phoenix looks like It is the same as alive. "

Ziyu led them to another showcase in front, pointed to the phoenix embroidery inside and said.

"The kitten in front is so cute, and the phoenix here is so beautiful. I always thought that my embroidery skills are already very good. How could I have thought that there are so many strange stitches? I don't know. Yes, it’s a pity that I always thought I was a Bai Xiaosheng!”

Sang Zi looked at the phoenix in front of him, and felt that he was about to rush out of the glass cabinet and soar to the nine heavens in the next moment.

For the first time, Sangzi felt that he still had too much to learn, and he really shouldn't be too proud.

"I also thought that I was very good, and I seemed to have understood all the embroidery techniques from all over the country.

But I didn't expect that I didn't even fully understand me in Shu embroidery.

If it wasn't for the embroidery award this time, I wouldn't have realized that I am a frog in a well. "The exclamation in Yang Qi's eyes has never disappeared since the moment she saw Qin Liangyu's python phoenix shirt.

"You are all still young, it's normal to see anything you've seen, don't worry about it, I'll take you to see Shi Linzhen!

In Shu embroidery, the most representative work is the hibiscus and koi picture. Have you seen it? "

"I've seen it. I participated in an embroidery exhibition in Beijing before. The picture of hibiscus and koi was the most praised Shu embroidery work in it." Peng Shaolie said hastily.

"I have also seen the embroidery work promotion on TV, and I have also studied it specifically. Why can people embroider koi so well? But the fish I embroidered are so dry and flat that there is no life at all.

Before, I always thought that it was because I seldom embroidered fish, and because I was not familiar with it, I could not embroider well.

Look now!This embroidered fish is the same as the previous embroidered cat and phoenix, and it requires special skills. After Sangzi finished speaking, she winked playfully at Ziyu.

Ziyu smiled, and shifted his gaze to Shen Chuqing, Shen Chuqing said with some embarrassment: "I have seen it in the textbooks, and some of the more brilliant embroidery works occasionally appear on our textbooks, so that we can understand us better. The beauty of Chinese craftsmanship."

"Okay! I don't want to talk nonsense. I will tell you the most commonly used stitches for carp embroidery in Sichuan embroidery. The scale method, first of all, you must embroider two or three stitches with light-colored thread as a base, and then use dark-colored thread layer by layer. Acupuncture.

After the color of the thread deepens layer by layer, the fineness must also become finer and finer. Generally, four to five layers are applied before the scales will be bright and vivid.

When embroidering brocade carp, the last step is to use colored thread to enhance the color, so that the scales of the fish will show a golden luster.

There is also a need to pay attention to the use of virtual and real needles. The virtual and real needles were introduced to China from Japan by the famous embroidery master Shen Shou in the Qing Dynasty.

Acupuncture of emptiness and reality pays attention to the use of reality and emptiness. The main characteristics are that it is vague, intermittent, and combined.

In Shu embroidery, virtual and real needles play a very important role in embroidering koi. It perfectly expresses the color of fish tail and fins from deep to light, from existence to non-existence. feel. "

"Besides the scale-applying needle and the empty-and-full needle, do Furong Koi have any other special acupuncture methods?" Shen Chuqing asked first.

"Yes! There is another one you can learn about, its name is yarn needle..." Ziyu can be said to be answering every question.

But before he finished talking here, Yang Qi continued: "I know this, yarn needles are also called sand needles, and the emphasis is on the method of moving the needles mostly in parallel stitches, sparsely distributed on the embroidery surface.

There are also pattern trends that use embroidery needles in the way of turning needles.The thread needs to be split, the thinner the needle, the thinner the thread, and the virtual form is like observing things through the yarn, which seems to be nothing, but it is real to the touch.

Yarn needles are widely used to embroider patterns such as water patterns, fish tails and fish fins.

Master Hao used the needle method of sand needle in her embroidered hibiscus and koi pictures.

Later, Master Wu embroidered a piece of flying apsaras, and he used the sand needle technique to the fullest. "