Shuang Mianxiu is a traditional art in China. How much do you know about this embroidery?

Shuang Mianxiu is one of the excellent traditional crafts in China. It began in the Song Dynasty. This is embroidery made with the same base material and the same embroidery process. The same outline, the same delicate pattern, you can appreciate it carefully. Shuang Mianxiu is mainly embodied in the works of four major embroideries in China (Xiang embroidery, Su embroidery, Yue embroidery and Shu embroidery). According to experts, Shuang Mianxiu appeared in Song Dynasty, but it was mostly used for daily necessities, such as Buddhist scriptures and handkerchiefs. Even among the four modern embroideries, it is difficult to appreciate the art of Shuang Mianxiu in history. Xiang embroidery is one of the four famous embroideries. No matter Ping Xiu, weaving embroidery, netting embroidery, knotting embroidery, big character embroidery, cutting embroidery, cubism embroidery, Shuang Mianxiu embroidery, etc. Both pay attention to depicting the appearance and internal quality of objects. Even if it is small, it is very detailed. It can be seen from the embroidery unearthed from 1958 Changsha Chu Tomb that Hunan local embroidery developed as early as 2500 years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period.

After the founding of New China, the government took active protective measures to rescue, inherit and develop embroidery skills, and successfully developed double-sided tricolor embroidery and double-sided tricolor embroidery. By transplanting many fine traditions of Chinese painting into embroidery, Chinese painting, embroidery, poetry, calligraphy, stone and other arts are skillfully integrated into one, forming Xiang embroidery. Based on Chinese painting, Xiang embroidery uses more than 70 stitches and more than 65,438+000 colors of embroidery thread, giving full play to the expressive force of stitches, finely depicting the appearance and internal characteristics of objects, and creating vivid and colorful embroidery images with strong texture, both form and spirit, and bold style. Once had the reputation of embroidery, bird singing, tiger running and vivid figures.

Shuang Mianxiu is an embroidery method which embroiders the positive and negative colors of the same pattern on the substrate with one stitch. Different from single-sided embroidery, it only requires the front of the work, regardless of the reverse side of the seam; Shuang Mianxiu requires uniformity on both sides. Double-sided tricolor embroidery is invented on the basis of double-sided tricolor embroidery, and it is also the development of double-sided tricolor embroidery. It is characterized by different embroidery faces, different stitches and different colors. That is to say, the patterns of the corresponding parts on the front and back are different, the acupuncture methods are different, and the colors are different. So that viewers can appreciate the artistic images of embroidery with different patterns, different stitches and different colors on one embroidery. This kind of embroidery is unprecedented in the history of Suzhou embroidery and Chinese embroidery.

Suzhou embroidery pays attention to the thickness of thread, with 1/2 thick thread,112 thick velvet and filar silk traces. Divide this line into several parts. Pay attention to the rational use of thread and the change of silk texture. According to different fabric quality, color and theme, not only can the needles be handled flexibly and comprehensively, but also the thickness of trimming can fully show the texture of the object image. This is one of the traditional embroidery. All kinds of embroidery. Also called double-sided light. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Shuang Mianxiu reached a high level. After liberation, Suzhou embroidery artists made great progress through research and improvement. Nowadays, Suzhou Shuang Mianxiu products, as national gift exhibits, are well received by people at home and abroad. Shuang Mianxiu, such as Xiang embroidery and Guang embroidery, are now produced.