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Chapter 14 Teaching Suzhou Embroidery
Mu Xuefei looked at a lotus embroidered on the snow-green cotton cloth in her hand, thinking about the memory of the embroidery in her mind, and distinguishing the embroidery in her hand.

I saw that the lotus has form but no spirit. I used the basic embroidery method to outline the shape of the lotus, but the stitches are fine and tight. It seems that Qin Lan's basic skills are still very solid.

"Lan'er, your foundation is still very solid, now you can learn how to embroider." Mu Xuefei said frankly.

"Sister-in-law, stop comforting me, can you teach me?" Qin Lan lowered her head to listen to Mu Xuefei's evaluation, and when she heard Mu Xuefei praised her, she immediately looked up at Mu Xuefei and said expectantly.

"Lan'er is so eager to learn, of course I will teach her everything." Mu Xuefei assured Qin Lan looking at her shy expression.

"Sister-in-law, thank you." Qin Lan looked at Mu Xuefei and sincerely thanked her.

"Okay, don't be so outrageous, I'll tell you how to embroider today, and I'll start learning it tomorrow. Let me tell you that I'm not a professional embroiderer and I can't teach you much!" Mu Xuefei said modestly.

"Sister-in-law, I am very grateful that I can continue to study." Qin Lan said seriously.

"Lan'er, listen carefully. I'm learning Suzhou embroidery. Next, I'll tell you about its characteristics and stitching techniques." Mu Xuefei said eloquently.

"Su embroidery has a unique style of beautiful patterns, ingenious ideas, meticulous embroidery, lively stitches, elegant colors, and strong local characteristics. Embroidery techniques have the characteristics of "flat, even, fine, dense, harmonious, light, smooth, and even." "Ping" means the embroidery surface is flat; "Qi" means the edges of the pattern are neat; "Thin" means the needle is delicate and the embroidery thread is fine; "Dense" means that the lines are arranged tightly without stitches; "Guang" refers to the dazzling brilliance and bright color; "shun" refers to the smoothness of the silk; "uniform" refers to the lines are fine and even, and the density is consistent." Mu Xuefei continued after a pause.

"Landscapes can distinguish the interest of far and near; pavilions have a profound body; figures can have a vivid feeling of looking at them; flowers and birds can express a graceful and intimate attitude. Su embroidery's imitation painting embroidery and photo embroidery are famous all over the world for their realistic embroidery skills. .”

"There are six types of stitches: [-]. Straight embroidery is divided into straight stitches and wrapping stitches."

"Straight stitch: use vertical thread to embroider the shape completely, the rising and falling stitches of the line are all on the edge, all in parallel alignment, and the edge is neat. The color matching is one color line for one unit, and there is no harmony color. If the stitches are too long, add thread nails Later, it evolved into the needling method of laying needles and engraving; winding needles: short diagonal lines are used to wrap around the body for embroidery, and the direction is the same from the beginning of the needle on one side to the dropping of the needle on the other side.”

"[-]. Needlework: Needlework is a needling method that expresses curved shapes. It includes four types: cutting needles, connecting needles, rolling needles, and rotating needles. Among them, cutting needles are the earliest, and later developed into rotating needles.

1. Needle cutting: also called "needling".The needles are connected and pierced. The second needle must be connected to the original eye of the first needle. The stitches should be as thin as fish roe. This is the so-called "three needles in one sesame seed".

2. Needle connection: The straight needle line can be stretched, but it will be thrown up because the line is too long.Cutting the needle lengthens the line but exposes the stitches.

3. Rolling needle: Rolling needle is also called curved needle, and the needles are pressed tightly to embroider.Insert the second stitch into the middle of the first stitch a bit earlier, press the thread tightly, and hide the stitches under the thread, and the third stitch to the first stitch is a bit earlier at the end, and so on.

4. Rotating needle: It is a needle method that is embroidered in circles by connecting or rolling needles.When embroidering, use short needles and needles along the spiraling lines of the shape, evenly and densely without revealing the stitches. "Mu Xuefei said that she stopped here to rest for a while and then started her science popularization.

"Three, trocars: trocars are divided into six types.

1. Single set: also known as flat set.The embroidery method is: the first batch starts from the edge, and the edge is neat; Transfer to the end of the first batch by one centimeter, and then leave a gap for the fourth batch of needles; the fourth batch is inserted into the end of the second batch by one centimeter; thereafter, and so on.

2. Double sets: The embroidery method of double sets is the same as that of single set, but it is deeper than single set and the number of batches is shorter.It is connected with the first batch by the fourth batch, that is, the second batch is connected to three quarters of the first batch, the third batch is connected to two quarters of the first batch, and the fourth batch is connected to four quarters of the first batch. one part.

3. Wooden comb set: the embroidery method is the same as that of the single set, but looser than the single set.After the first batch goes out of the edge, the second batch is dropped in the half of the first batch, and one stitch is set every other line. caught in the gap.

4. Set sets: The embroidery method is the same as that of single sets, but the first batch of needles at the outer opening is more, the number of stitches is less for each batch, and the stitches are hidden short for each batch.At the end of the embroidery, all the surrounding lines are concentrated in one eye, covering each other one after another, just like a single set.

5. Partial wool cover: It is the method of embroidering bird feathers, that is, the method of embroidering piece hair.The method is: carry out nesting embroidery according to the texture of the piece wool, the nesting method is the same as the double sleeve, but the lines are slightly longer or shorter.Therefore, some people call it "long and short sets".

6. Live hair cover: it is the needle method used to embroider animals.There are two sets of methods: one is to embroider three stitches flat first, and then add a cross stitch on the third stitch.This embroidery method has certain rules, and it is all embroidered in groups.The second type is tight inside and radial outside, embroidered from outside to inside, the thread on the second batch covers half of the previous batch and the needle drops, turning according to the shape of the animal.There are also two embroidery methods that can be embroidered together.

Four, shake and needle: also known as long and short needles.This kind of stitching method is mixed with long and short stitches. The back stitches come out from the middle of the front stitches, and the edges are not even.

[-]. Grabbing needles: also known as closing stitches, it is a needling method in which short straight needles are used to follow the posture of the body, and successive stitches follow the previous stitches, and the stitches are grabbed one by one.It can be said that this needle method is the development of the straight needle.

[-]. Flat stitch: It is an embroidery method in which gold and silver threads are used instead of silk threads.The method is to spread gold thread or silver thread on the embroidery ground first, and then tie it with short needles of silk thread. The distance between each needle is one to one and a half minutes. , there are also multiple rows.The thread tied should be like a cross pattern on the flower, just like the pattern on the sole of a shoe; nail thread: nail thread is a special thin color thread instead of gold thread embroidery method.This color line is called brown line, also known as wrapped root line.Its embroidery method is similar to that of Pingjin, because it has more thread colors and can embroider more objects than Pingjin. "Mu Xuefei exhaled lightly and finally finished speaking.

Mu Xuefei looked up and saw Qin Lan listening with a bewildered expression, smiled and said, "These are theories, just listen to it, and I will explain it to you in detail when I use it later."

"Okay, sister-in-law." Qin Lan whispered in embarrassment. When she heard her sister-in-law talking for a long time, she just stared at her and hardly remembered anything. The only thought in her mind was that she knew a lot!

"Lan'er, take it easy. To sum it up, Su embroidery pays attention to the changes in needle movement. The commonly used stitches in Su embroidery are: uniform stitches, loose stitches, application of stitches, empty and full stitches, chaotic stitches, dots, yarn poking, stitching, and rolling stitches." .

(End of this chapter)