Shanghai embroidery

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Shanghai embroidery

Applicant: Pudong New Area, Shanghai

Item No.: 1160

Project No.: Ⅶ - 103

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional art

Region: Shanghai

Type: new item

Applicant: Pudong New Area, Shanghai

Protection unit: Shanghai Lihui Embroidery Culture Development Co., Ltd

Introduction to Shanghai embroidery:

Applicant: Pudong New Area, Shanghai

Woolen embroidery, also known as "woolen embroidery" or "plush embroidery", is an embroidery process in which various pictures and patterns are embroidered on a special mesh linen fabric with colored woolen thread.

As an imported technology, velvet embroidery has a history of more than 100 years in China. At the beginning of its introduction, its products, like those in Europe, were mostly used as decorative fabrics for daily necessities such as handbags, slippers and cushions. The patterns were mainly flower patterns and the color matching was relatively simple. At the end of 1930s, Liu Peizhen, the five sisters of Liu's family in Shanghai, based on the improvement of velvet embroidery technology, succeeded in making portraits with the technology of velvet embroidery. In the early 1950s, Shanghai embroidery artist Gao Wanyu and others once again reformed the technology of embroidery, studied the color matching scheme, and dyed by themselves, so that the color of the yarn increased from dozens to thousands. At the same time, drawing lessons from other embroidery techniques, using techniques such as thread breaking, color matching, and color adding, they completely solved the color transition of embroidery objects The transition problem greatly enriches the performance ability of the velvet embroidery process. The performance object of velvet embroidery has also expanded from the original flower patterns to the reproduction of characters, landscapes, oil paintings and color photos.

Although velvet embroidery is a kind of embroidery technology, compared with the traditional silk embroidery technology, the texture of its wool material is thicker than that of silk thread, and the needling method is not complicated. It mainly includes oblique dot shaped dot embroidery, cross stitch, pickling stitch, blending stitch, galling stitch and random stitch. It can be flexibly configured and re created according to the needs of image performance. Over the past hundred years, the technology of woollen embroidery originated from Europe has entered China. With the improvement, enrichment and development of Chinese artists, it has become one of the traditional arts and crafts in China. The woollen embroidery works created in the past 50 years have also become the classic works of Chinese arts and crafts, either as a national gift to friends, or on display in the national assembly hall, or for domestic and foreign customers They are collected by public and private collectors.

Shanghai's woollen embroidery has the characteristics of fine workmanship, changeable stitching, thick and meticulous, clear layers, rich colors and vivid images. Due to various reasons, the survival of Shanghai's woollen embroidery technology has encountered great difficulties.