Chapter 515: Patchwork Again (1)
The first patchwork was sewn by hand, but this time the sewing machine was used, and the speed was incomparable. The patchwork materials are all taken from the large stack of Xiaoli cloth heads in the Yun'er Hall, all of which are cotton cloth heads of different sizes, with a wide variety of colors.
This time, it is to be popularized among the girls and grandmothers in the front and back courtyards, and the other girls and grandmothers also have to process and order work, as well as the fabric needed by the four shops.
Yun'er found a pack of thick patchwork patterns in her room, all of which Xiaoli downloaded and printed on the Internet. Yun'er asked Yu'er, Ling Juan, and Shui'er to use a sewing machine to make several different samples for several teachers to follow the pattern of the patchwork, how did they know that Ling Juan and Shui'er made it? I thought it was a sample that Yun'er bought.
When the grandmothers understand it, they will begin to spread it among the girls and grandmothers in the front and rear courtyards, and after they learn it, they can spread it among the girls and grandmothers in the upper and lower houses.
There are a lot of materials needed now: this time it is an apron, seat cushion, pillow, pocket, wallet, cloth basket, key case, children's quilt, children's clothing, children's shoes, skirts, pillowcases, pillows, chair cushions, pajamas, puppets, cloth flowers, women's clothing, slippers, etc. Especially the carrying bag, it is really ingenious. Not only is the workmanship more fine, the style is also more novel, but also the ribbon embroidery, cross-stitch and silk screen flowers are used on the pocket, but also the quilting machine of the ingenious quilting, the thickening of the fabric, giving people the feeling is beautiful, strong and durable. Xiaoli gave the printed patchwork samples to the sea! The cloth head which could be used as a patchwork went to the sea, too! But also little by little. These newly baked patchwork pieces give the impression that they are not simply sewn with quilts and clothes, but works of art!
Fortunately, Yun'er bought so many cloths, tools, and sewing machines, and she felt that she had bought too much and was cheap, but how could there be so many fabrics in the Qing Dynasty? The Shanghai cloth corner in the hall has also become the best material for patchwork. Teach the grandmothers to rack their brains to put together the scraps of cloth in their hands into real objects. Each person received a kind for a sample.
Tian Liang and Nalan found more than 100 bags of Xiaoli cloth heads in the hall that could be used for patchwork, and used them for the girls and grandmothers in the front and back courtyards. The girls in the other courtyards continued to complete the production tasks of the agency store and processing orders.
The quality of the fabric artwork put together by the teaching mothers with sewing machines is particularly good and fast, coupled with the diversification of tools and Tian Liang's reasonable division of labor, a new round of patchwork samples was soon born. The girls and grandmothers in the front and back courtyards all came to watch, and the screams of surprise came one after another.
Some patchwork pieces cannot be sewn by sewing machines, such as puppets, cloth flowers, money bags, cloth baskets, children's shoes, slippers, cloth tigers, etc. Larger patchwork fabrics such as quilts, skirts, pillowcases, pillows, and chair cushions can be used with sewing machines.
Dozens of patchwork samples made by the teaching mothers were sent to each girl in the front and back courtyards, and then they were asked to select fabrics according to the samples, and everyone gathered together to make them. The acrylic cotton, the filler used to make the puppets, was also released, and these acrylic cotton were discovered by accident, in the courtyard with Xiaoli cloth heads in the northwest corner of the garden. It is estimated that there can be several truckloads of acrylic cotton.
The acrylic cotton, which needs to be thickened to make a carrying bag, was also made, and one by one I started to do it with great interest and eagerness.
When the two hundred are done, they will be suspended, and the fabric products will be sent to the three consignment stores that sell cloth products for sale. Yun'er also thought that these things were made of rags, and the women of the Qing Dynasty occasionally made them, and the sales prospects would not be very optimistic, so the time was exhausted in the morning, and the order users were generated. Although the order quantity of patchwork is not much, the amount added together is considerable. At first, it was an order of four or five copies, and then there were seventy or eighty of them. So the craze of patchwork set off again, and all the girls and grandmothers in the house must be put into battle.
Yun'er sent the purchased patchwork tools, one set for each two people, used in tandem, kept by the two of them, if it was lost, it was doubled according to the original price, and the two of them jointly compensated. But if the tool is broken for no reason because of poor quality, then the person who did the work cannot be blamed. Plastic products are certainly not too strong. This patchwork tool had to be done by himself, and the task was handed over to the scientific and technological personnel Ma Yushi.
Tian Liang instructed them in assembly operations. In this way, everyone has developed the habit of division of labor and cooperation: someone is responsible for cutting, someone is responsible for pasting, someone is responsible for sewing, and someone is responsible for inspecting the quality.
The women in the capital are very ingenious and good at imitating, buying patchwork goods back and making them themselves. Unfortunately, the fabrics she could buy were limited, and the tools were not as handy as they could be. The finished product can only be the effect of Dong Shi Xiao Feng.
It's not how valuable these things are, it's how new they are. The appearance of dim sum can be made out of cloth, and the bananas made are like real ones, and there are such small animal toys, all of which are worn with stainless steel pull rings, which can be used as key chains or decorations on bags. There are indeed a few well-intentioned people among the buyers, who want to know who did it, how to do it, and what materials were used to make it. But after the sale, I found that the smaller and more delicate things were, the more troublesome and time-consuming, and the price could not be very expensive. So it was changed to a large piece.
Yun'er organized a teaching and learning mama patchwork competition, and all participants had to hand in a relatively large work. Draw your own creative drawings, and then Yun'er will prepare the corresponding fabrics according to the drawings drawn.
The quilt of the fish is red and white, surrounded by red cloth and white cloth with a geometric pattern of triangles and squares, and the outer circle is darker in color as a border; The inside of the border is white as the base, and the red narrow border is divided into twelve squares, arranged horizontally and vertically. Inside each block is a sticker of Bugs Bunny. There are twelve different forms of Bugs Bunny patterns in twelve squares, which are vivid and very lively; Shui'er's quilt is surrounded by a wide edge of magenta, with a diamond-shaped lattice in the middle, and the background color of the lattice is pale yellow, and fruits such as apples, pears, pineapples, and oranges are sewn on it; Mama Lin's quilt is simply twenty large squares, black partitions, and squares of different colors of nine-square grids; Mama Zheng's ingenuity is a painting on the face: farmhouse. The houses in the countryside and the yards are full of corn, and there are trees and a cat and a dog watching the fields; Ning Tao's quilt is a diamond shape of different shades matched together; The quilt is a carpet pattern, antique; The quilt is made of square pieces of cloth and forms long strips of different shades. Each has its own creativity, each with its own merits. Yun'er rewarded each of them with a bed sheet with a box. Maybe it's really Yun'er who has aesthetic fatigue, and she doesn't care about how beautiful things are, but the people who get the reward are all excited, and they can't keep their mouths shut.
As a result of the selection, Yu'er won the first place and was the best among the teaching and learning mothers. The fish has a very strong ability to accept, and has been with the master since he was ten years old, often watching the master paint, and he also knows some painting skills, color matching, image design, and the patchwork works made are very unique;
Shui'er won the second place, she is a very beautiful person, and she also belongs to the ingenuity series, and she is learning to paint with her master, and she is very creative; Mama Zheng, who ranked third, is the eldest lady from an official family, and she has been in contact with qin, chess, calligraphy and painting since she was four or five years old, and her understanding of the problem is not at an ordinary level; Needless to say, Mama Lin, that Su embroidery is outstanding. Suzhou embroidery also needs to touch the sketch, so the design of the patchwork pattern is more than enough; Mama Ning is even more ingenious and innovative; Even the mustache and bun are not completely amateurs in painting. They are very interested in beautiful and delicate things, so the patchwork they make is also very interesting.
This time, the patchwork was mostly bedding, sheets, quilt covers, pillows, tents, etc. The original shape of the fabric has been changed, but it looks much better than the original. For example, if you put together a pattern that is more harmonious with other colors, it becomes a noble figure. For example, it used to be just a small checker, but now a large red cloth half a foot wide is added from the waist position, and this red strip cloth is decorated as a pocket for matches, which is both beautiful and practical. If you add a cloth sticker of small animals, it will look even better.
Patchwork is not all materials can be put together, at least the thickness is not too different, it is best to put cotton and cotton together, chemical fiber and chemical fiber together.
After the patchwork of the two masters was affirmed, they taught the girl in charge of their own mother, so that the patchwork quilt, cushion, pillow, pillow, apron, children's clothing, pockets, hanging paintings, etc. have been out of the cage and have their own style. But there are also a lot of materials used.
After registering and making records, these spliced fabrics were sent to Ruiqian's cloth village for trial sale, and they were sold out in less than half a day.
The cloth itself is not worth much, but it takes a lot of effort, and it is also a creative process. It's not that the women of the Qing Dynasty don't know how to make patchwork, but they lack patchwork materials. If they also have these patchwork materials in their hands, the fabric will be very beautiful.
Ruiqian has been paying attention to the preferences of consumers, the older ones buy large and useful things, the young girls and daughters-in-law like the products close to life, and the little girls like small and delicate gadgets.
Yun'er began to teach the grandmothers to use rag parquet and new cloth paste. Cloth art is to circle around the cloth. This rag parquet is not the same as the large piece, and the beautiful patterns spelled out are very small. For example, flowers, people, fruits, utensils, small ornaments, etc. It can be curtains, landscapes, hanging paintings, blessing characters, embroidered piers, aprons, and so on. Regular gaps can be rolled out with a quilting machine, or they can be quilted freely. The fabric is beautiful. In this way, smaller pieces of cloth can be put together without going to waste.
Cloth stickers, formerly known as patch embroidery, commonly known as cloth stickers, also known as cloth pile paintings, cloth appliqués, cloth stack paintings, etc. The base is mostly white, but other colors can also be used, depending on the content of the performance. The cloth stickers are rich and bright, and the cut-and-paste edges are neat and bright, rich in the characteristics of woodcut prints, similar to silk clip-ons.
In fact, cloth stickers already existed in the Qing Dynasty, which were limited to the female dependents of wealthy and high-status families, and the Shangyi Bureau in the palace was also doing it, and the "complements" on the officials' court clothes should also belong to the category of cloth stickers.
Yun'er brought back a lot of pictures, so she turned them into templates. I found the colorful cartoon cardboard in the box of stationery, made a template according to the color and graphics on the picture, and then found the material in the Xiaoli cloth head according to the color of the template, and cut out the material of the cloth sticker.
Many of the exotic cloth stickers are used as home decorations in mirror frames. Yun'er didn't bring back a lot of frames, and her eyes fell on practical daily necessities. For example, cloth stickers are sewn onto bags, aprons, pillows, children's clothing, etc., and the contents of cloth stickers include flowers, fruits, animals, people, insects, fish, vegetables, cartoon characters, etc. I still taught seven teachers first, and then they taught all the girls and grandmothers in the house. "Dexterity is not as good as home", Yun'er's hands have materials that can be used to make cloth stickers, that is, those irregular graphic pieces of cloth bought from Shanghai can make a lot of cloth stickers. Coupled with the help of a sewing machine, it is even more powerful. Soon, a batch of cloth sticker products appeared on the shelves of Yulong Cloth Village, Dong Ji Cloth Village, and Nalan Department Store, which became a new round of competition for women in the capital. In the face of these cute images, the love of beauty for women of all ages has been hooked.
Cloth stickers are mainly for ornamentation. The finished cloth sticker is to be packed in the frame, so it looks more expensive. The wooden threads brought back by Yun'er were all spray-painted, including black, brown, rosewood, white, and gold. It's all matte paint, which looks very high-end. Cloth stickers are not necessarily flat cloth, they can be three-dimensional. Yun'er used a few pieces of red brocade to babe a little cotton, and then sewed gold thread on a piece of cloth with a yellow background and antique patterns, which was very three-dimensional. Mounted in the frame, it is also very prominent and eye-catching.
This cloth sticker was not taught to all the girls in the garden on a large scale. Because the frame is limited, it is necessary to send a more high-end picture. I only did a few dozen and didn't do it.
Most of the cloth stickers were sent to Ruiqian's shop, and some were sent to Nalan Donggui and Dong Ji Buzhuang. It was sold out in a few days.
It is worth mentioning Tian Liang's side chamber Erdet? Colored beads have always been very low-key. She never goes to people to shake it, but makes cloth in the house, and she learns a few things that the fish teaches her, which is a worry-free thing. As the days went by, Yu'er felt as if she had been inappropriately treated by her husband's side room. She is not a roommate, nor is she an ordinary concubine, she is a side room, and she is the category of three wives and four concubines. Every day, she didn't go to the small kitchen to eat with everyone, and it was her maid who brought her back from the small kitchen with a food box. It's a little unpleasant, let the new maid Xiang'er next to her go to her. If you look for it, you will come, and if you don't look for it, you will not come. Tian Liang was still majestic and asked her, "What's the matter with you?" Do you have to be invited to dinner? You're not trying to give the impression of being abused, are you? ”
"No, no, Caizhu forgot about himself doing work, I'm sorry, Caizhu likes these gadgets too much."