Chapter 45: Fun Facts
This kind of dress style that can make people like Cui Wanqing, who are used to seeing the world, pay special attention to it, naturally has its uniqueness.
The most unique thing about this skirt is that it is a vivid lotus flower, which is not embroidered.
Instead, a unique formula is used in Jiangzhou, and the pattern drawn with special color ink is completely fixed on the cloth.
It can be seen from this that if you want to get such a skirt with a distant artistic conception, you must first invite a master of painting to use this special pigment to make a smart and beautiful painting on the prepared fabric.
When the painting is finished, it is left to dry in the sun for two days, until the ink is completely soaked in, and then washed with another kind of water with powdered medicine.
When finished, the painting on the fabric is bright and beautiful, long-lasting, and extremely strong.
The one Cao Tang wore that day, because it was a dress worn on a hot day, was made of very light and soft Su Luosha, but this yarn was denser than usual, and it could be said that it was thin but not transparent.
The gown on it is cut close-fitting, short only to the waist, and then pull out a circle of tassels at the waist, and the skirt is long gemstone tassels on both sides, and it is also very elegant without silk tape.
The sleeves are wide ruffle sleeves, and the large lace is all hollow lotus-like, which shows the slim figure when worn on the body.
Cui Wanqing saw it at the time, and felt that her eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but praise a few more words, praising the novel style and fresh idea.
It's just that the kind of dress that Cao Tang wears is not the best, wearing this kind of painting dress, the style is exquisite or not, and the materials are noble or not. are still secondary.
The main thing to pay attention to is who the painter is, whether he is a famous artist, and whether he has a reputation.
The big shopkeeper of Caojia Jiangzhou has been in the south for more than ten years, and the business of several stores he runs is not bad, and there are many people who have met him because of business contacts.
But most of the top flower bed masters are arrogant and noble, and rarely wear robes for their children. Painting on the skirt. There are very few who can get it.
The couple obviously couldn't reach the top, so they could only retreat to the next best thing and spend a lot of money to find a slightly famous painter.
This is not only a dress that costs money, but also takes effort. How could Mrs. Liu not tell the hidden reason?
It's just that what others say is very tactful. Just an anecdote about what ever happened with this dress. As a pastime, I chatted with Cao Tang.
Cao Tang is the daughter of the Hou Mansion, for the affairs of the back house. That's what I've heard and seen, Mrs. Liu's number, she can still handle it.
In addition, this set of colored ink dresses is indeed very good, and Cao Tang really likes it, but he inherits Mrs. Liu's favor.
It's just that the most regrettable thing is that there is only one set of such good clothes, and I am happy to wear them, but when I see that Cousin Qing has no clothes to wear, she is really unhappy.
Cui Wanqing was originally to distract Fang's mother, so she said these details very carefully, and Fang's mother and the two maids who listened to them were all fascinated.
"It's so strange that Miss, you want to make one out of your heart." Mother Fang was stunned when she heard this, and sighed: "Just listening to what you say, the slave maid thinks that this dress is very interesting." ”
"Although there are no famous painters around us, there are still one or two who can pick up a pen to paint."
"But even if it's painted, it doesn't have the kind of special prescription that people have, right? According to what you just said, this kind of recipe must also be a unique secret recipe in this industry, and it will not be copied to anyone at will. ”
"So, even if we bother to paint and cut the clothes, but the most important process is missing, isn't it just a sigh?"
Mother Fang's life, in addition to the young lady on the tip of her heart, the little lady is a female celebrity, and she is really interested in what Cui Wanqing said.
In any case, no matter how much you like something, after decades of doing it, you will feel numb, and this new method of making clothes is like injecting fresh vitality into a pool of stagnant water.
Since Fang's mother really put her heart into it, the questions she could think about became very realistic.
"Hey." Cui Wan said with a clear smile: "Mama, you don't know, the kind of colored ink that has been medicated can be bought in the dyeing workshop." ”
"However, the last process of fixing the color is a secret that is not passed on, but in the dyeing workshop, there is a special business for people to fix the color."
"It's for some young ladies who pay attention to others, and specially invited masters to paint for themselves."
"According to Mrs. Liu, one of the most famous jokes in Jiangzhou happened to be about Mr. Suizhi's youngest granddaughter."
"When she celebrated her twelfth birthday, Mr. Suizhi asked her little granddaughter what she wanted for her birthday gift, and this Miss Hu took the opportunity to beg her grandfather to draw a Chongyang golden chrysanthemum on a fragrant brocade yarn."
"As a result, this set of clothes made of Fangjin yarn was sent by Miss Hu to the dyeing workshop to fix the color, and it happened to be seen by one of their painters that it was Mr. Suizhi's masterpiece."
"The entire Jiangzhou City was shocked by this incident at that time, and this matter has always been circulated as a good story, and Miss Hu became famous in one fell swoop!"
"Mama, I've already thought about it, let's let Cousin Xiu paint it himself, let's paint it all in spring, summer, autumn and winter, Meilan bamboo chrysanthemum."
"In the future, when my cousin becomes famous, this dress will be worth a lot of money!"
Her words made the room full of people laugh again and again.
Cui Wanqing wants to find more things to do for her grandmother, and it just so happens that this kind of dress is not easy to cut.
If you really make the four sets she said, do the math, you have to toss until the end of autumn.
Come to think of it, with two or three months as a buffer, it can always allow Fang's mother to relieve her worried depression.
"Miss can't use her cousin too harshly, he is now eight hundred, Mr. Suizhi's apprentice."
"In the past, we were in the capital, and we didn't know much about things in the south, but now when we go to Jiangzhou, we know how famous Mr. Suizhi is."
"The maid heard that the concubine in their family is not worried about getting married, let alone the ninth concubine in their family." Ah Tao has been by Cui Wanqing's side from the beginning, and she has been on the errand of finding out the news, and now she still likes to listen to these gossip.
She blinked her eyes at the end, and said with envy, "The ninth miss from the Hu family is the young lady of the Hu family in the story you just told." ”
"This young lady is twenty-eight years old this year, but because of her high vision and her family, she has not been engaged until now, and she is one of the few young ladies in Jiangzhou who has not been married."
"Many people who are jealous of the Hu family are talking in private, saying that they want to see what kind of proud lady of the Hu family can find this Miss Hu Jiajiu with eyes on her forehead!" (To be continued......)