Lady of the Lord From the East

The so-called split thread is to split one embroidery thread into several strands for use.

The embroidery thread of Su embroidery has two velvets (sixteen threads), and the finer the split, the more delicate the embroidered pattern. In the eyes of ordinary people, an embroidery thread is already very thin, and one velvet (eight threads) is used like a beginner. Practice, but a master who is really good at this method can even split the embroidery thread with only sixteen threads into seventy or eighty strands for embroidery.

Wei Wei had never tried whether she could do this, but her intuition was ok.

But because of material limitations, she couldn't teach Dolores to split the thread without silk thread, so she started directly with needlework.

There are as many as forty or fifty kinds of stitches in Suzhou embroidery, but there are about thirteen commonly used stitches. These basic stitches are actually very simple, and it is difficult to combine them to embroider a good work.

Wei Wei painted patterns such as stones, flowers, leaves and butterflies on two linen cloths in advance, each pattern representing a different stitch.

She first demonstrated to Dolores on her own piece, and then let Dolores practice. The first day's class was to familiarize her with all the common stitches, and for a long time after that, she had to Practice these stitches.

It was boring learning, but Dolores loved it.

She was originally a quiet little girl who liked embroidery, and the reason why she fell in love with embroidery was because of an embroidered table screen ornament from the East in her mother's relic that she saw when she was a child.

Although she had only seen it once, Dolores was deeply shocked by the exquisite and gorgeous embroidery, and she has never forgotten it ever since.

It's a pity that it is a work of art from the East, and no one in the whole of Europe knows it.

And now has the opportunity to learn this embroidery method from Wei Wei, Dolores cherishes this opportunity very much.

Seeing the little girl holding the needle and embroidering seriously, Wei Wei smiled and picked up the needle and thread and started to move.

Unlike Dolores' practice, Wei Wei embroidered a fan.

The carpenter in Sardinson can only make furniture, and when making fans, she can make fan bones at most according to her requirements, or ordinary fan bones without patterns and carvings, so she has to find another way to make fans.

Don't think about paper. Although papermaking was introduced to Europe in the twelfth century, it was popularized in various countries after the fourteenth century. Nowadays, people mainly use parchment paper. Wei Wei can't think of where to find a suitable paper. fan paper.

Since paper cannot be used, of course cloth must be used.

And it’s true that there are fabrics with patterns, but those fabrics were bought by her from the tailor, and the patterns are not suitable for making fans. She herself has a bunch of clothes that she can’t wear, so she simply chose a piece based on the idea of ​​​​using waste. I plan to embroider some patterns on it and then decide to make a fan.

One of the fans was made for a little girl, so after asking her about her preferences, Wei Wei embroidered small birds on the branches and butterflies. Because the embroidery thread used was colored cotton thread, the final embroidery effect was not as good as the orthodox Suzhou embroidery. So beautiful and elegant, on the contrary, there is a kind of three-dimensional and lively modern European embroidery, and it is still exquisite like a work of art.

The proof is that when she saw the birds and flowers embroidered by Wei Wei, Dolores couldn't move her eyes, and her face flushed with excitement.

Sister Weiwei said, when the fan is done, this is hers!

How can she be so good!

The little girl who looked at Wei Wei's embroidery with big blue eyes admiringly soon ushered in a burst of chestnuts that were not too painful.

Wei Wei, who felt that she needed to be a teacher, looked at her with a straight face: "Concentrate on practicing."

The little girl covered the top of her head, smiled embarrassedly at her, lowered her head and continued to practice, even if she still glanced at Wei Wei from time to time.

Wei Wei teaches Dolores one hour per class, and only four classes per week, one embroidery one counts, this arrangement was decided after discussing with Mrs. Bates, Dolores There are a lot of classes to attend, but Mrs. Bates arranged for Dolores only two classes a day from Monday to Saturday, and no classes on Sunday. Wei Wei took over two of them, so she could have two more days off. .

As for Wei Wei, who became more and more busy because Felix came back, most of the time for embroidering fans was squeezed out in embroidery class. Embroidery itself is a course that requires a lot of time to practice. She stared at Dolores. While practicing basic stitches, she did it herself. Her speed was fast, and the embroidery was simple and small. When the carpenter sent the finished fan bones, her fan face was also embroidered.

The embroidered fan surface is cut according to the size of the fan bone, glued with the paste made of flour, and finally a layer of lace is locked on the edge of the fan surface, and the fan is ready.

When Wei Wei held the finished fan and unfolded it gracefully, the fan face embroidered with Die Lianhua slanted half of her face, revealing only a pair of beautiful eyes like stars, and looked at Dolorie eagerly. Si Shi, not only the little girl, but also the maid who was with her, and Felix who just walked in from the gate behind the little girl, were all stunned.

As if something suddenly exploded in his mind, the young Count completely forgot the purpose of his coming here, and his mind was blank, only the smiling eyes of the elegant and noble girl in front of him, and the sentence. talk.

"I like you."

Lord Earl's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, as fast as it was about to jump out of his chest.

It's absolutely the most beautiful sound in the world, and it doesn't get any better.

Felix was immersed in the girl's sudden confession, and after a while, he suddenly realized that the other party didn't say it to him.

This realization brought him back to his senses, and the expression on his face sank directly.

With anger and impatience, he interrupted the unknowingly warm atmosphere in the room: "What are you doing?!"

what to do?

Wei Wei, who was explaining the fan language to Dolores and actually operating it, held the fan and looked at the man at the door suspiciously with her shining black eyes from behind the fan.

"Obviously, we are in class." She paused and asked, "Is there something wrong, Lord Count?"

Felix, who could only see Wei Wei alone just now, noticed that the two of them were not the only ones at the scene. At the same time, he also realized that his words were a little out of place.

Especially when he saw that the younger sister who turned around was also holding a fan in her hand and was studying the teacher's graceful behavior, he thought that he had probably misunderstood something.

The author has something to say: Felix (grievance): Why didn't she like it to me!

Wei Wei: Please stop brain supplementation, thank you.