Cross stitch knowledge

In the past year, cross-stitch as a recreational activity has widely appeared in the people's field of vision: When shopping, individual business owners can be seen embroidering leisurely; in the neighborhood, they can often see each other in the living room. A huge cross-stitch is hung; even when taking a bus, you can see the ticket officer quickly threading his needle through the journey...

Since cross stitch is so popular, how much do you know about cross stitch?

Name origin:

In the fourteenth century, Huang Mei picked flowers from Turkey to Europe and Italy. Because Huangmei’s acupuncture method is simple and expressive, it also coincides with the European Renaissance, so Huangmei’s picking flowers quickly swept the courts of European countries. The continuous blending of Chinese and Western cultures has enabled Huang Mei to pick up the acupunctures, patterns, and colors of flowers in Europe. The Huangmei pick flowers are mainly translated as CROSS-STITCH, which is known as cross-stitch, because they are mainly cross-stitched.

use:

The use of cross-stitch can be roughly divided into four types: the first is for embellishing clothes and clothing; the second is for accessories and accessories; the third is for daily necessities and home decoration; the fourth is for leisure and making friends.

1. Embellishment clothing, clothing.

As early as the Tang Dynasty in China, Dunhuang frescoes had “cloud shoulders”. "Cloud shoulder" this dress in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yuan Dynasty and other periods, only the nobles of the palace can be used by upper class people, such as "a quadruple wishful" "Fuking wishful" and other images.

2. Modified accessories, jewelry.

Accessories such as purses, fan covers, and jewelry boxes are mostly used by officials, literati, and writers. In terms of meaning, there is love, happyness, peace, auspiciousness, and wishful thinking.

3. For daily use.

The curtains of the old days, daily necessities such as "book hangings," "pillows," "pillows," "pictures," etc., were embroidered by cross-stitch. Cross-stitch development to today, the most common cross-stitch pillow, embroidered a pillow for loved ones, one needle has its own thoughts and blessings. In addition to cross-stitch and ribbon embroidery, the famous embroidered pieces include "Three-Ken Kaitai Pillow Top", "Fisheries Gaining Benefits", "Immersion Pot Set Celebration", "Blessing in the Eyes", "Curtain Curtain Belt" and so on.

4. Leisure, friends.

With the improvement of living standards, people's entertainment activities are becoming more and more abundant, and cross-stitch as a recreational activity is also increasingly welcomed by people. About two or three like-minded friends, it is also a good leisure choice to study cross stitch embroidery together.