Basic Knowledge

An art that puts stitch and artificial design on any existing fabric.

Embroidery is drawing a picture with needle and stitches, and telling a story on the fabrics. Its basic element is stitches. Like drawing, it reflects the human custom, culture, psychology, etc.

Embroidery is a real art form. Artists express their pursuit of beauty through different forms, painter takes paint brush, sculptor takes earth and metal, wood sculptor takes the wood. Embroidery, like the above, expresses people's taste for beauty. However, embroidery is a comprehensive art. At the beginning, people embroidered on the most basic fabric along its weaving texture, later, anything was embroidered if it can be pulled through by needle and stitches.

Embroidery is a re-origination art on the woven fabrics, but it is not only augment of stitches and colors. It many produce a whole new sense, an art with woven, color and multiple stitches, certain outline and significance. Embroidery can invent arras, flower edge, pictures, theme, story and so on with stitches, scissors and printing fabric.