It's not too far from the house to Andingmen, and it takes half an hour to arrive. Mama Lin knew the location of the Ruyi embroidery workshop and arrived directly.

Usually, Gu Ruyi does not receive guests, unless he comes to buy large or multiple embroideries, he does not dare to decide how much the price is, and if there is a guest with a prominent status, Gu Ruyi will personally entertain him.

Yun'er didn't want to be ostentatious, so she looked at the embroidery downstairs first, and when the guy saw Yun'er's dress, he knew that he was the son of a big family. Yun'er wears men's clothes, and her gestures are all men's taste. Very chic, very generous, and very polite, he is a scholar's style, and he has a righteous face.

The guy didn't dare to wait slowly, so he hurriedly stepped forward to talk: "Which embroidery did this son fancy in the shop?" What size do you want to prepare? ”

"I'll appreciate it first, you're busy with yours."

"Yes, yes, you look first, the small one will pour you tea."

"You're welcome, I don't drink tea." Yun'er will not "import" to eat and drink casually outside.

It is indeed what Mama Lin said, the embroidery in this embroidery workshop is very exquisite. But the sketch was not satisfactory. This is what Mama Lin and Yun'er look at with high eyes. Who is Mama Lin? Su embroidery family, who is Yun'er? A connoisseur of drawing. But in the capital, the embroidery of the Ruyi embroidery workshop is already a first-class boutique. Yun'er's feeling is that the picture is a bit dull and uniform. If there is a living sketch, then it can be improved. If you change your drawings into drawings that can be embroidered, it seems that there is a lot of potential to be tapped, and it is worth trying.

The young man went upstairs and told Gu Ruyi about the three of Yun'er entering the store to look at the embroidery: "Shopkeeper, the little one seems to be from a big family, don't treat others slowly......"

"Okay, I'll go down and have a look."

"Which embroidery does this boy like?"

"You are ......"

"It's good to be in the next place."

"Look up for a long time, look up for a long time, take care of the shopkeeper. In Xia Chen Yulong, I have long heard that your embroidery is very exquisite, and it really deserves its name. Yun'er clasped her fists very chicly.

"Thank you for the compliment. Childe, please be seated! Gu Ruyi hurriedly returned the salute, and at a glance it was clear that this Chen Gongzi was actually dressed as a woman, her scholar was also a woman, and the grandmother who came with her was a real woman. Of course, she doesn't need to say it, whether she is a man or a woman in business.

After greeting for a while, Yun'er took her leave. It is impossible for her to buy the embroidery here, because there are also embroidery girls in the house, or from the palace, and Mama Lin's embroidery is no worse than Gu Ruyi's, just to see the situation, I feel that Gu Ruyi is not watching people put down dishes. Because Yun'er didn't hug each other, she was just dressed as an ordinary scholar, Gu Ruyi also came down from upstairs to entertain, and she didn't buy embroidery and was not indignant, which is not bad. It gives people the feeling of being very calm, neither humble nor arrogant. Yun'er hates that kind of insincere praise and flattering eyes. Of course, Yun'er didn't know Gu Ruyi's stubborn strength in learning art.

When she returned to the house, Yun'er began to draw embroidery drafts, especially those of Su embroidery. Yun'er has never drawn embroidery drafts, but she has a lot of books on how to draw embroidery drafts, including Su embroidery.

Suzhou embroidery stitch method is lively, ingenious in conception, exquisite embroidery, elegant in color, rich in local characteristics, lifelike. Especially imitation embroidery, there is no difference from the real painting, as well as photo embroidery, embroidered characters, animals, flowers are the same as the real one, the artistic effect of Suzhou embroidery is famous all over the world. It has a long history, rich in three-dimensionality, lively patterns, elegant and smart, and can be described as all-encompassing embroidery.

The painting method of Gongbi flowers is more suitable for Suzhou embroidery drafts

Before going to the exotic land, Yun'er has always been painting Gongbi flowers, and many of the exotic painters of Gongbi flowers and birds are of a very high level, such as Yu Zhizhen, Li Xiaoming, Zheng Naijun, etc., with deep skills and delicate images, and the shock to Yun'er is quite strong. Although Yun'er changed to freehand flowers and birds, she still remembers the flowers and birds of Gongbi. Some of the embroidery threads that Yun'er bought back from foreign lands are specially used for Suzhou embroidery, which are beautiful, fresh, bright and generous. The exotic painters of flowers and birds summed up the thousands of years of painting experience of their predecessors, in addition to the training of formal colleges and universities, as well as systematic painting theory, Yun'er only followed Lan Lan to paint a few times and then went to the essence.

Yun'er cut the four-foot rice paper into three equal parts, took one of them and painted a peony with a fine brush, the size of which is used as a pillowcase in an exotic land, and then asked Mama Lin if it could be used as an embroidery draft. Mama Lin's eyes glared at the boss: "Four estimates, isn't it a pity that you use such a beautiful painting as a sketch?" ”

"What's the pity? What do you think would be the effect if it were turned into embroidery? ”

"Fabulous! You've reached the point of perfection! What is this painting used for? ”

"How about making pillowcases?"

"Pillowcase? Is the pillowcase in this shape? ”

"I'm talking about exotic pillowcases, all of which are flat, wider than our Daqing pillows, and they are comfortable to pillow on."

"Really? The slave also embroidered a pair of pillowcases of the kind you mentioned, and you can teach them to the slave and maid. ”

"With your cleverness, you'll figure it out quickly. To say that it is a high realm, I am far from it. In this way, if you have time, embroider an embroidery according to this draft, I will see the effect first, and we can also sell sketches and embroidery to make money in the future. ”

"Sold? You said you sold the sketches? Unsellable! Whoever bought it will send it. ”

"Is it that valuable?" Yun'er was a little unconvinced, thinking that it was Mama Lin who was coaxing herself. This sketch was drawn by Yun'er very casually, and the strokes and colors were abbreviated, just to meet the requirements of embroidery. The general embroidery is colorless, that is, white drawing. If it is colored, the embroiderer has a reference in the process of embroidery.

Yun'er had never sold embroidery manuscripts, so she asked Mama Lin how much the painting in front of her could sell for. Mama Lin thought about it and said, how can I ask for twenty or thirty taels. Yun'er's eyes widened: "What you said is too exaggerated, right?" How much does an embroidery cost? ”

"Any embroidery girl with such a sketch will be a baby. She doesn't use it once and then doesn't want it, she has to be very careful to draw it down many times, and then constantly change the color, and then slightly change the secondary content in it, so that every embroidery is the same. If your sketch is sold to a Ruyi embroidery workshop, it will be used more often. There was a land painter from the south, who specialized in tracing and changing other people's drawings. If you're going to sell it to his family, it's more than ten skins for a cow. The slave maid has learned Su embroidery and understands. I also used to go to the Ruyi embroidery workshop to steal art. He laughed.

"You're amazing. Can you learn just by looking at other people's drawings? Do you also copy other people's things and use them many times? Otherwise, you are responsible for selling the sketch to Gu Ruyi, and you can control how much it can be sold, and one-fifth of the profit will go to you. ”

Mama Lin knelt in front of Yun'er all of a sudden: "The slave doesn't want your profits!" The slaves and maids can have today, all of them are given by Master Chen, Mrs. Chen and Fourth Miss......"

"Don't price, don't price, hurry up. You can be here today because of your good character, my father and my mother are willing to help you, and it is also a kind of fate to be able to help you. The prince is doing things for the emperor, we are helping the prince, and the prince has already said that he will pay all the participants. Besides, it's not your job to help me sell my sketches, you have to run away, you have to bargain with others, and you're still pregnant. Also, you are now two daughters, and you have to prepare two dowries, and if you have a son, you have to prepare a dowry for your son. Of course, Master Suo also has a lot of money, not a lot. You're welcome, you must protect you with a few people when you go to sell sketches, otherwise I won't be at ease. Don't worry about it, this money is not deducted from my monthly case, nor is it the prince's money, it is in the business profits, and you also want to make money by grinding with others, at least you have to bargain, right? That's what you worry about, it's what you deserve, that's all? When I go back, I will let one of the maids in our courtyard follow you, and then send two personal soldiers to protect you, and you will sit in the car and go to sell the goods steadily. This kind of drawing can be drawn at any time, and it should be practiced. By the way, I also told you that I was going to send another person to sell the sketches, and that was the Xi Mama in the garden. She knows Gu Ruyi, what I asked her to sell must not be the same type as you, and I didn't let her know that you were also selling sketches, wouldn't this be more money? ”

"Yes, the slave listens to you. Thank you for your estimation. ”

"Don't keep kneeling on me in the future, okay? From Master Hu's side, you are my elder. ”

"That's not good, you are the master, the slave and maid can't be too casual, there are still rules."

"You really are. I'll try to draw a few more paintings, you give the palm of your eyes, see which one is more suitable as a sketch, you are an expert, and this matter will be left to you. ”

"Yes, thank you for your trust."

So Yun'er pondered the embroidery draft every day, and painting the embroidery draft was also an exercise for her paintings, and the embroidery draft was still different from the paintings she usually painted. The embroidery should conform to the size of the embroidered cloth, the image of the painting should be clear and prominent, and the edge part should have a clear boundary with the canvas.

There is no such restriction on drawing, as long as the size of the paper allows, you can draw however you want.

Yun'er wants to turn the Ruyi embroidery workshop into a consignment store for the various embroideries processed by the girls and grandmothers in the house, the key is how Gu Ruyi's character is, she has no relatives with the people in the house, and there are thousands of exercises in the palace, I am afraid it is difficult to control.

Of course, it doesn't have to be to sell embroidery with her, but she just has this idea.

Yun'er bought more than one embroidery pattern, not just a style, including the traditional Suzhou embroidery draft, as well as a variety of modern embroidery drafts embroidered with sewing machines, as well as embroidery patterns for children, insoles, embroidery patterns on the upper, clothing embroidery patterns, pillowcases and pillow embroidery patterns, as well as cartoon embroidery patterns, etc., no less than 10,000 kinds. She has already seen the embroidery of the Ruyi embroidery workshop, and she doesn't need to look at it, and she also has a general understanding of the embroidery drafts there. There is no shortage of good embroiderers, what is lacking is good sketches. If you use the sketches you draw to embroider them, the quality will be much better than now, and the price will be much more expensive. The key is that I don't know what the character of this Gu Ruyi Gu shopkeeper is, and whether there will be trouble cooperating with her.

Gu Ruyi, Yun'er's aunt dealt with her, that is, Yun'er had ordered a wedding dress with her before she got married, and her aunt said that this woman was too greedy, and she ordered a few sets of embroideries on the bride worn by Yun'er there, and she asked for five hundred taels of silver. My aunt thought that my niece would marry once in her life, or marry the prince, so she gritted her teeth and agreed, but Yun'er was not satisfied with the embroidered wedding dress she brought back. Because the wedding dress is said, the red is worn by the main room, and Yun'er is the side room, which is rose-red, Gu Ruyi felt that the bride's parents spent so much silver on the red wedding dress that was either an aunt or a concubine, and they must be tying up high-ranking officials or big households, and they didn't take the embroidery too seriously. Even the side room is also scored, who is the man, right? I'm afraid that the character of a person who is high and low will not be too good?

Yun'er is not as indignant as her aunt about this matter, a businessman, always puts money first. Now that I'm in business, how do I deal with businessmen? You can't be mercenary, right? Besides, it's not uncommon for businesses like my cousin to do so.

Yun'er began to think about how to draw embroidery drafts from the book "Embroidery Patterns". Starting from Suzhou embroidery, the embroidery manuscript of Suzhou embroidery is more complicated.