What are the classic works of traditional Suzhou embroidery?

Appreciation of Suzhou embroidery is famous for its rubbings in history, so it is called "painting embroidery", which has been closely related to painting since the Song Dynasty and influenced by the fashion of painting circles in various historical periods. So, what are the representative works of Su embroidery?

Suzhou embroidery

1. Flower and bird embroidery. Flower-and-bird embroidery is a traditional work of Suzhou embroidery. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, boudoir art embroidery was dominated by flowers and birds. After the founding of New China, on the basis of inheriting fine traditions, many kinds of embroidery with flowers and birds as the content were created, such as a hundred birds facing the phoenix, Song Shou, Peacock Peony, Baifeng, White Peacock, Chunxiang, Spring Back to the Earth, Duck of hollyhock, Chestnut Pheasant, Lotus Kingfisher, Rose and so on.

Ye, et al. embroidered White Peacock.

The embroidered surface is mainly white peacock, with Chibi and Mozhu as the background. Embroidery with various stitches, such as loose sleeve, oblique winding, needle roller, whipping and knitting, not only makes every white and beautiful feather of the white peacock brushed by the breeze, but also has luster and texture. Every slender feather and down has been carefully treated, showing the rigor and delicacy of the stitches. Peacock's eyes are embroidered with extremely short lines of spinning needles, which make them sparkling and very vivid. The whole embroidered surface is smooth, symmetrical and lively, just like a real white peacock pavilion standing on the beautiful Red Cliff, with its back against Zhu Mo and its head held high in the sun, and its whole body exudes silver luster, elegant, quiet and lifelike.

Wang Baozhen's Song Ling He Shou, etc.

On the embroidered surface, ten red-crowned cranes are arranged in a staggered way, some often lead their necks, some bow their heads and hang their feet, some pitch and roll over, the order changes, they move silently, and the movement is combined with movement.

Embroidery in Wu Jinfeng brings spring back to the earth.

"Spring Back to the Earth" was painted by two famous painters from China Nanbei 12, and the beautiful flowers were embroidered by the methods of virtual and real needles and scattered needles. Colorful flowers are in full bloom in the wind, full of flowers, thriving, beautiful in appearance, graceful in branches and leaves, welcoming guests, fluttering in the wind and harmonious in brushwork.

Su embroidery. Mao (surname)

Cats and goldfish are the traditional themes of Suzhou embroidery. Cats mainly embroider ears, nose and eyes. Especially for cat's eyes, embroidery workers need to use 26 different colors of silk thread and one or two short needles. The furry hair on a kitten is to divide a flower thread into forty-eight thin threads, and then embroider them layer by layer from the virtual to the real, from the shallow to the deep.

Su Xiu. fish

2. Portrait embroidery. Portrait embroidery is the most difficult work in Suzhou embroidery. Taking real-life photography and painting as an embroidered manuscript requires not only spirit and form, but also ways and expressions vary from person to person. To make embroidery vivid, it needs a high combination of skill and art.

Su embroidery "Time is like a song"

Embroidered portraits must first master the outline, including the outline and the small outline of each part (including the structure of bones and muscles, the level of light and dark colors). Secondly, we should master the color, based on the basic color of the face, and pay attention to the proportion of light and dark colors. The bright part should be clear, the dark part should be dim, and the transition part should be mixed with intermediate colors. The third is to master the lines, the ground color bars should be thick and the color lines should be thin. The lines should be staggered from block to block. At the junction of the big outline and the background, the lines should be long, short, thick and thin according to the embroidery.

Su embroidery portrait "Queen of England" Yao Jianping embroidery?

"The Queen of England" takes a photo of Elizabeth II as the material and draws lessons from the perspective principle of painting, "taking a needle as a pen and silk as ink". From the initial conception to the final completion of the work, it took 14 months, and more than a thousand colors of silk thread were used.

Tradition is the source of the development of Suzhou embroidery skills. Only by being independent of tradition, closely combining with the lifestyle, the needs of the times and the artistic trend of modern society, and constantly innovating, can the artistic tradition of Suzhou embroidery remain beautiful and youthful forever and be carried forward.

Suzhou Jiaogu Suzhou Embroidery Art Co., Ltd. was established in 2009, focusing on the research, development, design and customization of high-end handmade Suzhou embroidery for ten years. Suzhou embroidery products designed and produced by Jiao Gu have won many national awards and been presented to politicians at home and abroad as national gifts.