Since the Tang Dynasty, Suzhou silk art has formed different artistic features in different periods. In the Song Dynasty, techniques such as "ring", "flat", "wooden comb", "shuttle" and "bolt" were used to make the picture colorful and comfortable, giving people beautiful enjoyment. Today's silk reeling art has made new progress on the basis of inheriting the traditional silk reeling skills. From 65438 to 0977, under the guidance of Wang Jinshan, silk reeling artists of Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute carefully weaved a large silk reeling masterpiece in Jindi with a width of 8 meters and a height of 2 meters-Chairman Mao's poem "Xijiang Moon Jinggangshan". Traditional silk reeling can only express block letters or official calligraphy, while Chairman Mao's poems are cursive calligraphy with dry pen, so it is quite difficult to express dry and wet shades. According to the change of each word's reality and the shade of dry and wet, Wang Jinshan not only used the traditional techniques such as knot, hook and hook, but also pioneered the twisting yarn weaving method and oblique shuttle weaving method, carefully weaving, which just showed the broad artistic conception of Chairman Mao's poems. The whole work is appropriate in shades and distinct in layers, with ups and downs between the lines, echoing back and forth, giving people a sense of unity. The work was sent to Beijing, the capital, and was well received by the party and state leaders. Now they are displayed in the west hall of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall.
In the 1980s, Wang Jinshan carefully weaved a masterpiece Shou Xingtu in different colors, with a silver front pattern as the bottom, showing an old birthday star holding a leading crutch. The birthday girl is wearing a crimson robe, smiling and amiable. On the upper right is an imitation of the seal of Ren Bonian, a great painter of the Qing Dynasty. The reverse pattern is based on gold, and there is a word "shou" in the dark seal script; On the upper left is an imitation of the seal of Wu Changshuo, a great painter of the Qing Dynasty. Under these two seals, there is a seal of Wang Jinshan. The works are novel in composition, exquisite in design and elegant in color, and the viewers are all amazed. These works are now in the China Museum of Arts and Crafts Treasures. There are also imitations of "Twelve Chapters of Tuanlong Fushou Ruyi" woven by reeling artists under the guidance of China arts and crafts master Xu. , length 1.36 meters, waist 2.26 meters, cuffs 0.60 meters, gold background. The pattern is dominated by twelve dragons, surrounded by moire, waves and waves. The dragon body is woven with peacock thread, and * * * uses 28 kinds of color threads such as yellow, blue, vermilion, green and brown. Gold thread consumes gold 12, and the weaving technology exceeds the original level. It is a rare exquisite silk product, and won the 1984 China Arts and Crafts Hundred Flowers Award Gold Cup Award. It is now on display in Dingling Museum. At the same time, it also innovated the peony screen and the double-sided embroidery work Panda and White Cat, which was beautiful, elegant and full of interest. It was exhibited at home and abroad and attracted people from all walks of life.
The first three generations of Suzhou Wang Silk Reeling were all craftsmen of the Qing court. Wang Jinding, a descendant of the first generation, specialized in reeling silk, such as court clothes and robes. The shroud and robes made by Wang Zeng, the second generation successor, for Empress Dowager Cixi. The third-generation descendant Wang Jinting's work "Horse Valley Birthday Picture" was published in 19 108. In 2006, Wang's silk reeling took three years to copy a costume of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, using 6,000 peacock hairs and 65,438+10,000 meters of gold thread imported from Japan to reproduce the elegance of the royal costume more than 400 years ago.