Hunan embroidery intro

 During the 19th century (about 1810), embroidery is very popular in Hunan of china .It has 100 years of history. Today, It forms a kind of particular charm. Embroidery form Hunan province, Jiangsu province, Guangdong Province, Sichuan Province exist simultaneously as four famous Embroideries "in china.

 Hunan embroidery has a long history and is very famous aboard. Its works have strong value of decoration, appreciation and collection. Hunan embroidery draft is based on Chinese painting, and embroidery arts directly carried forward poem, calligraphy, painting and seal. Being employed form which combined the above traditional arts makes embroidery works have strong traditional art characteristic.

Hunan embroidery expresses figures lively and vivid as well as bright in color. It pursues not only the effect of decoration or the truthfulness of photography, but according to the needs of expressing different subjects and figures ,then being employed changeable stitching and embroidery skill. Realistically, it has achieved the effect which has both romantic charm and form. Hunan embroidery pursues not only the effect of thin orderly, flat, dense, even and bright, It emphasizes the synthetic utilization of stitching, embroidery teachique and various arts crafts factors, contrasting and unifying.

      Therefore Hunan embroidery appears as the artistic characteristic of various style and features. It really is the cream of Hunan culture and the precious of china.

Hunan embroidery, namely handicraft embroidery in Hunan be a kind of outstanding handicraft craftwork of the creation of people in Hunan, have consummate technical skill and special art style, is our country four famous embroider it a. She is  development in the everyplace civilian embroidery  foundation . The as early as war country is period, the Hunan embroidery had higher art level and be familiar with of technical skill.The embroidery of China use the true silk, hard soft satin, transparent glass yarn, Ni Long of the satin,cotton thread...etc, make for the raw material of fine handicraft product, but the Hunan embroidery main use true silk fabric  embroider a graphics case, it be valuablely  to  an art, object and also have beauty  of daily necessity.The main species has one side to embroider, two-sided embroider, screen, the painting slice, bedcover, pillowcase, bedspread, depend mat, table cloth, handkerchief, various embroider dress and palace and embroider flower shoe, scarf...etc, various life daily necessity.Each species can embroider with the diagrams, such as scenery, flowers and birds,  animals and portrait...etc..

    Hunan embroidery skillful use  our country tradition of painting, calligraphy, and other art and embroidery merge into an integral whole, formation with China painting for foundation, usage about 200 kinds of line and first-class silk,  handicraft with needle fill in pen, skillful of usage 100 variety the needle method creations or revivification appearance of the one and only of China the embroidery flow parties,The characteristics which show the most is that the color be fresh and gorgeous, the image be lifelike, composition sincerely, the appearance texture be strong and have a clear conscience at the art effect of"far view vehemence grandiosity, near see to by superb ".

Hunan embroidery  compare with other embroider  have it the special art special features.The main performance is vivid for image, nature, lifelike, texture mightiness. Generalize to say, she with China painting base, "with needle generation pen, embellish by line". on the foundation which pursue sketch original intentionally carry on an art again creation, not only keep sketch original of pen and ink poetic charm, and pass an embroidery craft, increased reliability and stereoscopic feeling of thing elephant, general painting the art effect of the can not compare with,  Embroider an article regardless bird, animals, person, flower, landscape, wood, insect fish, portrait...etc., all into appearance,But delicate strokes, comfortable, water color, the version painting, oil painting, photograph, calligraphy, all can embroider to make.Is really"embroider a flower ability smell joss-stick, embroider bird ability hear bird call, embroider a tiger ability run, embroider a person an ability vivid portrayal."!"Take needle as a pen, take silk fabric as paper, take velour as a color", embroider workers exquisite technics , skillfully with various color flower line .Used for same color from deep arrive shallow or from shallow arrive deep of transition, expression gradual change again mixture even color diversification, creation various bright harmony please color.Use No.1 deep color line embroidery after connect to embroider No.2 deep color, link up have to not even, mutual interleaving, and not wear trace, color then can harmony.Handing over to connect to take line can't too long, also can't each too long, each of too short.This be the Hunan embroidery with other embroider craftwork needle method of basic differentiation of place.Become one of the characteristics of Hunan embroidery.