Hidden needles and hidden threads
The three core techniques of Hunan embroidery - "complete embroidery, curling hair needle, and face-opening needle"
Hunan embroidery cleverly combines Our country's traditional painting, calligraphy, and other arts are integrated with embroidery. Based on Chinese painting, nearly two hundred colors of embroidery thread and fine silk and satin are used. Hand-made needles are used for writing, and more than one hundred colors are skillfully used. A unique Chinese embroidery school that uses various stitches to create or restore images.
1. Double-sided completely different embroidery
The technical characteristics of double-sided completely different embroidery are extremely complex. It requires embroidery on both sides of a transparent embroidery base material. Two objects with completely different images, compositions and stitching methods form two completely different pictures and produce two artistic conceptions with different feelings.
First of all, in the design of the embroidery manuscript, the completely different embroidery is embroidered on the transparent thin cliff, so the outer contours are required to be completely consistent, and different picture contents are designed under the same overall appearance. This requires making use of the possibilities of various styling changes provided by perspective, anatomy, and color science, and also adapting to the feasibility of needlework and embroidery methods. The technical approach is narrow and difficult. Secondly, in terms of technological characteristics, the creative point of Quanyi Embroidery in embroidery technology is the subtle craftsmanship of hidden needles and hidden threads.
Quanyi embroidery has different images on both sides. The changes in lines and the difference between Yanwa are just a few cents. If there is a slight mistake, it will be lost a thousand miles. The difficult process requirements cannot be accomplished without particularly exquisite skills. There are also different methods of applying needles for embroidery, or the force of the needles may be different, or the tones may be different, or the thickness may be different. The threads must be hidden and the needles must be hidden, and they must be precise and appropriate.
2. The hairy hair needle
The hairy hair needle is one of the Hunan embroidery stitches. It is mainly used to embroider the fur of tigers and lions. It was created by Yu Zhenhui, an old Hunan embroidery artist. After the 1980s, Zhou Jinxiu and Liu Aiyun, the inheritors of the "hair stitch" embroidery method, trained a group of apprentices and innovated this stitch method, applying it to embroidering cats, dogs, leopards, antelopes and other animals and large-feathered birds. The earth improves the artistic effect of embroidery.
Method: Spread the needle in a radial pattern, use a thicker and sparse thread at one end of the stretch, and use a denser thread at the other end, and hide the thread. This makes people feel that the threads are like straight hairs, with one end growing into the flesh and the other end growing up. After the embroidery is completed, it has a vivid texture. The application of the "hair-pin" embroidery method made Hunan embroidery's liger-themed embroidery suddenly emerge, attracting the attention of other famous embroidery companies. In the early 1970s, other famous embroidery companies sent people to Hunan Province's Xiang Embroidery Factory to learn embroidery, and they also wanted to learn " However, in order to maintain the uniqueness of Hunan embroidery, it is determined not to be spread outside the country.
3. Face-opening stitching
Face-opening stitching is one of the three core techniques of Hunan embroidery. The needles are applied along the muscle lines of the character's face and are specially used for embroidering high-end figures. As a three-legged core skill, portrait embroidery once ushered in the most dazzling period of Chinese Hunan embroidery's century-old glory, as evidenced by the sensational embroidery of Roosevelt's portrait in Europe and the United States. Compared with the other two of the three pillars, portrait embroidery actually requires more extensive technical training and basic skills.
Xiang Fengyun has always been committed to the inheritance and innovation of Hunan embroidery, making Hunan embroidery "live" in the present and nourishing life. As an ancient and traditional folk hand embroidery technique, Hunan embroidery has strong local cultural characteristics. It is not only a wonderful flower in the forest of Chinese arts, but also a cultural and artistic treasure of the Chinese nation, and an outstanding representative of Hunan culture.