Auther：2023-05-17
Suzhou embroidery is the general name of embroidery products in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, and is a traditional folk art in Suzhou. It is one of the four famous embroideries and one of the national intangible cultural heritage. The origin of Suzhou embroidery is in the area of Wu County, Suzhou, and now it has spread to Wuxi and Changzhou.
Su embroidery has a long history, and both the Ruiguang Pagoda and the Huqiu Pagoda in Suzhou, which were built during the Northern Song Dynasty in the Fifth Dynasty, have unearthed Su embroidery sutra wrappings, which can be used to spread and apply stitches in a flat manner. According to historical records, since the Song Dynasty, Suzhou embroidery skills flourished and the craft became increasingly sophisticated. In the countryside, every family raised silkworms, and every household embroidered, and there were also such lanes in the city as Embroidery Thread Lane, Rolling Embroidery Place, Jinxiu Place, and Embroidery Alley, showing the prosperity of embroidery in Suzhou. At that time, not only did people make a living by embroidery, but also rich girls and women often used it to spend their time and cultivate their temperament, so the names folk embroidery, boudoir embroidery and court embroidery were also used. This is where the names folk embroidery, boudoir embroidery and court embroidery come from.
After more than 2,000 years of development, Su embroidery has developed into an independent embroidery style, but as the times progress, the art needs to keep pace with the times. In the face of the new situation, Su embroidery enterprises have reformed and proposed the idea of commercializing Su embroidery gifts and designing Su embroidery home furnishings, so that the traditional folk Su embroidery craft is no longer extravagant, but comes into thousands of households. Personalized tailor-made, let Su embroidery is no longer limited to the old model, but too much fused into the buyer's thoughts and ideas, and made by pure and simple Suzhou embroiderer's pure hand embroidery. It makes Suzhou embroidery not only an art but also a humanized taste.
Suzhou embroidery has a unique style with beautiful patterns, ingenious ideas, meticulous embroidery, lively stitching and elegant colors, and strong local characteristics. The embroidery technique is characterized by flat, flush, fine, dense, harmonious, light, smooth and even. Flat refers to the spreading of the embroidery surface; flush refers to the neatness of the edges of the design; fine refers to the delicate use of needles and fine embroidery lines; dense means that the lines are tightly arranged without revealing stitches; harmony means that the coloring is appropriate; light means that the luster is dazzling and the color is vivid; smooth means that the silk is round and even means the lines are fine and even, and the sparseness and density are consistent. In terms of types, Su embroidery works can be divided into three main categories, namely, zero-cut, play clothes and hanging screens, which are both decorative and practical. Among them, double-sided embroidery is the most exquisite.
