Gu Embroidery Flower, Bird, Grass and Insect Atlas

[Gu Embroidery Flower, Bird, Grass and Insect Atlas]

Gu Embroidery Flower, Bird, Grass and Insect Atlas, clear, 26 cm in length and 22 cm in width
This album is a combination of flowers, birds, plants and insects and Dong Qichang’s poems and postscript. It has 6 frames, including Begonia Grasshopper, Apricot Spring Swallow, Dianthus Dragonfly, Lichun Butterfly, Peach Blossom Oriole, Plum Blossom Kingfisher. In addition to using the common embroidery techniques such as set needle, oblique winding needle, grab needle and flat needle to embroider flowers and grass, this atlas also uses some special needle techniques to embroider details, such as using ice needle to embroider dragonfly wings, such as yarn like fog, lifelike, and using rolling needle to embroider grasshopper and butterfly’s whiskers. The lines are light, thin, and dynamic. The thread is too thin, and the needle is as tiny as a hair. It can be said that the needle magic skill is excellent. Embroidering bird feathers with hairpin, the silk thread moves towards lifelike and exquisite, like a bird in the picture, and the embroidered butterfly wings are still like wing powder. The left copy of Dong Qichang’s postscript is embroidered with ink and silk. It is elegant and unique, and complements each other. Each opening is embroidered with “Luxiang Garden” and “Tiger Head”
The stitches in this picture are extremely ingenious, neat and neat, and the skillful hands are natural. The color matching is natural and realistic, “vibrant and colorful, which is more than Huang Quan’s father and son’s sketch”. Gu embroidery, as a boudoir embroidery in the south of the Yangtze River, is praised by the world for its fine broken silk, complex needlework, exquisite color fading, and vivid charm. Dong Qichang, a famous painter of the Ming Dynasty, also praised: “This is the best technique!”

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