Appreciation: One Of The Four Famous Embroideries: 1000 Year Suzhou Embroidery Returns To Modern Fashion

As the first of the four famous embroideries in China, Suzhou Embroidery is different from the bold color matching of Shu Embroidery, the magnificence of Guangdong Embroidery, and the complexity and diversity of Hunan Embroidery. Its "exquisite and elegant" is just like the Pingtan in the south of the Yangtze River. It is gentle and gentle, and can be seen for thousands of years.

Suzhou embroidery is the general name of embroidery products in Suzhou. It originated in Wuxian County, Suzhou, and spread all over Wuxi, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Suqian, Dongtai and other places in Jiangsu Province. Suzhou embroidery originated in Jiangnan water town. Folk embroidery has always been rich in folk color and flavor of water town life, bearing the gentleness and beauty of Jiangnan.

Suzhou embroidery has a history of more than 2000 years. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, there were records about the production of Suzhou embroidery. Suzhou embroidery, which has a long history of thousands of years, has laid a foundation in the Sui and Tang dynasties. By the Song and Yuan dynasties, its basic branches and characteristics had gradually formed.

"Flowers add spring color with jade fingers, and birds grow feathers with golden needles", which is the admiration of the Tang Dynasty poet Luo Yin for Suzhou embroidery technology.

In the artistic realm of Suzhou embroidery, you can see that mountains and waters can be divided into far and near; The pavilion has a profound body; The characters can have a vivid look; Flowers and birds can make friends. Suzhou embroidery is famous for its exquisite skills and elegant and realistic artistic effects.

Suzhou embroidery has a unique style with beautiful patterns, ingenious ideas, meticulous embroidery, lively stitches, elegant colors and rich local characteristics. Embroidery technique is characterized by "being flat, even, harmonious, smooth, smooth and even".

"Flat" refers to flat embroidery surface; "Flush" means that the edge of the pattern is neat; "Thin" refers to the fine needle and fine embroidery thread; "Dense" means that the lines are arranged in a compact manner without needle marks; "And" refers to suitable color; "Light" refers to dazzling and bright colors; "Shun" refers to the smooth rotation of silk texture; "Uniform" refers to fine and uniform lines with uniform density.

Suzhou embroidery is rich in colors. Suzhou embroidery artists usually use three or four different threads of the same color or adjacent colors to match each other, so as to create a color effect that can be easily dyed. There are hundreds or even thousands of thread colors used in a masterpiece.

In terms of embroidery skills, Suzhou embroidery is extremely rich in needlework, which can be summarized into 9 categories and 43 kinds of needlework.

In terms of categories, Suzhou embroidery works can be mainly divided into three categories, namely, cut pieces, costumes and hanging screens, which are both decorative and practical. Suzhou embroidery can be divided into single-sided embroidery and double-sided embroidery. From modern times, Suzhou embroidery was divided into two categories: random embroidery and plain embroidery.

Among them, the work of "double-sided embroidery" is the most exquisite. Some masterpieces are not only double-sided embroidery with hidden knots, but also can show patterns of different colors on the front and back.

At the same time, more and more designers continue to use traditional intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship in their design. Through "clothing", the most direct, obvious and accessible medium, the once unknown traditional craftsmanship begins to enter the fashion field of vision.

Jinxi Tang, as a Chinese brand inheriting the Suzhou embroidery craft, draws the compatible elegant elements from the colorful modern aesthetic culture, and explores the clothing philosophy of the coexistence of contemporary elegance and Chinese traditional culture.

Suzhou embroidery is not only a blessing to the appearance of cheongsam, but also contains profound Chinese history and profound cultural connotation. Jinxi Tang draws nutrients from Chinese traditional culture, inherits Chinese traditional crafts, and returns the thousand year old Suzhou embroidery art to modern fashion.

On the basis of the traditional skills of Suzhou embroidery, it actively innovates, integrates the contemporary aesthetic and characteristics of the times, so that the ancient Suzhou embroidery art glows with new vitality and brilliance, and at the same time endows the modern fashion with ancient charm, flexibility, fashion and elegance.

Jinxi Tang AW22 release show takes lotus as the theme, inherits intangible cultural heritage Suzhou embroidery as the core, and combines Chinese elements with modern design language.

The designer presents lotus and other elements through different styles and processes. The lotus is an image of honesty, self-reliance, elegance and purity. Like a graceful water fairy, it is a gentleman in the flower with a faint fragrance. The lotus is delicate and delicate. It grows out of mud but does not stain. It is clean without evil. It is straight from the middle to the outside. It does not spread, and its fragrance is far and clear. It is graceful and clean.

As a representative element of cheongsam, Suzhou embroidery is permeated with the wisdom and beautiful hopes of countless ancient women, full of fiery vitality, gentle emotion and profound cultural heritage.

The theme of Jinxi Tang this season is "Treasure Blossom" ▪ Fuhui Yuanrong ", combined with the lifestyle of contemporary urban women, continues to inherit and innovate from customized fabrics, design tailoring, process application, aesthetic elements and other aspects, explores elegance and self-confidence under the oriental clothing language with contemporary women, and pursues the ultimate interpretation of Chinese clothing in modern fashion.

Jinxi Tang Dynasty reproduces the traditional Suzhou embroidery process. Embroidery is not only a means to make patterns perfectly presented, but also contains the history of clothing development and unique national culture in China.

Jinxi Tang combines modern design inspiration, which makes the ancient Suzhou embroidery process glow with new vitality and brilliance, and also gives the ancient charm of modern fashion.

The traditional oriental patterns of dragon and phoenix, flowers and plants, together with silk, gauze, lace and embroidery, are improved and innovated in the traditional style of cheongsam to make the dress exquisite without losing the modern beauty. The traditional Chinese intangible heritage craftsmanship is inherited and innovated in the hands of a new generation of designers.