Green yarn embroidered with dragon and phoenix pattern, rice bead high cotton socks

[Green yarn embroidered with dragon and phoenix pattern and rice bead high cotton sock]

Green yarn embroidered with dragon and phoenix pattern and rice bead high cotton sock, Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, sock length 24 cm, height 55 cm, mouth width 27 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
Emperors and Emperors’ socks in the Qing Dynasty can be divided into high socks, short socks, single socks, flat socks and cotton socks. Their crafts are mainly silk weaving, embroidery and hand-painted socks. Men’s socks are mostly made of cloud and dragon patterns; For female socks, dragon and phoenix, flowers and other patterns are taken. The form of this empress concubine cotton sock is: high and double, and the sock mouth is horseshoe-shaped. The natural plain satin bottoms are inlaid with blue flowers and woven gold satin edges at the sock mouth, and the inside is inlaid with golden cirrus clouds and connected with coral and rice beads, decorated with red flowers and dark flowers
This pair of cotton socks uses the positive thread stringing technique on the red diameter yarn ground socks to fully accept the green ground, and the patterns such as dragon, phoenix, sea water river cliff and flowers are embroidered with the needle techniques such as flat gold, nail thread, winding needle, locking thread and positive end. This sock embroidery is complicated and exquisite, the pattern composition is vivid, and the color is bold and warm. It is a rare excellent work.