Video: Silk on silk. The art of legendary Suzhou embroidery
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Perhaps no one can beat the Chinese embroiderers, who have been preserving the ancient art of silk embroidery, which originated in the city of Suzhou for more than 2000 years, and amaze the imagination with incredible paintings "painted" with the finest needles on the finest fabric. The secret of the legendary Suzhou embroidery cherished like the apple of an eye, and very selectively passed on from generation to generation. But despite the fact that today this skill is being mastered by needlewomen from all over the world, only a select few are able to perform real, traditional Suzhou embroidery. This art combines graphics, handicrafts and painting. The finest work, which is not difficult to take for painting or silk-screen printing, takes from the craftswomen from six months to one and a half years of careful, painstaking work. The craftswomen work collectively on impressive, large-scale canvases. Each embroiders its own part of the canvas, but since the embroidery technique is the same for everyone, because the secret is the same for everyone, as a result it is impossible to determine where one "section" ends and another begins. The colors blend into each other so softly and smoothly that they seem to be brushed with paints, and the amazing detailing makes you think that it obviously could not have done without the help of hardworking elves.
The masters of Suazhou embroidery are especially proud of the fact that they know how to hide knots so skillfully, weaving them into a common canvas that it is impossible to determine where the picture is on the wrong side and where the front side is. In contrast to satin stitch embroidery, where it is obvious. Therefore, the greatest skill is considered to be able to do, and the greatest value is to have a double-sided embroidered picture, which, in fact, is two pictures in one. So, on the front side it can be a branch of blossoming sakura against a sunset background, and on the inside - an image of a cute fluffy kitten, reminiscent of Chinese watercolors in the gohua style. Such pictures can be found either on screens and curtains that adorn the interior, or on a festive fan of a wealthy lady, or on the table as a picture enclosed in a special frame made of transparent acrylic.
Silk on silk, needles as thick as a human hair, and threads that look like spider webs, amazing masterpieces of Suzhou embroidery are born day after day. The subjects are landscapes and portraits, still lifes and animals, scenes from everyday life and reproductions of paintings by legendary artists. Next to ordinary paintings, the embroidery of talented Chinese mistresses looks brighter, richer, juicier, more voluminous. And much more expensive.
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