Chapter 35 Learning Suzhou Embroidery
Everyone calmed down a little and found that everyone was still standing in the courtyard, this is not hospitality, not to mention that this Song Xiuniang is not an ordinary guest, she is a person who is concerned about the future fate of the granddaughter of the Tian family. If Xia Zhi knew what they were thinking, they would definitely hate iron and shout: "Can we have any more chance!"
After that, Song Xiuniang was invited into the hall in a hurry, and after arranging for her to sit down, Li left Zheng and Wang to accompany her, and she herself took others to arrange a place for Song Xiuniang. The granddaughter of the Tian family came out with a summer solstice who was still watching fish outside, and the others were very curious about Song Xiuniang, so they all snuggled up behind the Zheng family and the Wang family, and listened to her and the embroidery girl who wanted to teach them.
There are many Tian families, almost every room has a cubicle, and every house is crowded, only Lao Luotou and Li's bedroom was demolished because Tian Xiaomei got married, which is slightly more spacious, but this can't let Song Xiuniang live in their house, what has happened.
The Tian family thought about it again and again, so they had to let Tian Lao and his wife go to other houses to crowd in, vacate their house and let Song Xiuniang live in it, and the compartment had to let Tian Yushui and Tian Lixia live, otherwise they really couldn't live. It's not easy for the Li family to trouble other people, otherwise if Song Xiuniang's matter spreads, it will not have to explode.
Fortunately, except for one Tian Xiaoman, the children of the Tian family who love to play are not very out of the house, and she can't go out to learn embroidery these days. Moreover, there are no residents around the Tian family, just one of Xu's second family and the Tian family live closely, but because of the last fight, the two families don't have much contact. Even if someone saw Song Xiuniang, she didn't have anything to do, and said to the outside world that she was Li's distant cousin's niece, and she came here to see her aunt.
Song Xiuniang also understands this truth, and the reason why her cousin niece looks at her aunt is still what she came up with, as for the residence, the proprietress has already asked her to prepare, and the proprietress specially told her to be kind to the Tian family and not to look down on the Tian family. Besides, for the extra twenty yuan given by the proprietress, she will not embarrass the Tian family.
Arrange Song Xiuniang, this is also the second couple of Tian Lao who was kicked out of the nest, Li lamented that the house at home is too small, and the last one had to be squeezed on the big kang in their house, and she herself was squeezed in Tian Lao's bedroom with Lin and Liu, fortunately, the beds of the Tian family and the husband and wife are not small, otherwise they really have to make some paste and stick people to the wall. And on the summer solstice, there was a little white dew in their house, and the Wang family was pregnant, so the Li family didn't let them toss, after all, it was inconvenient.
When everything was arranged, the next day Song Xiuniang began to teach the eight granddaughters of the Tian family embroidery. However, she has more than eight students, and several daughters-in-law of the Tian family are busy with housework and want to learn more. Song Xiuniang adhered to the principle that teaching eight is teaching, and it is nothing to have one or two more, so she accepted the four of them together.
Song Xiuniang wanted to hand over Su embroidery, and everyone in the Tian family said that they had only heard of it, but had never seen it. It is said that Song Xiuniang's great-grandmother was a southerner, and she came to the north with her great-grandfather who fled the famine. Now her sisters in the family rely on this craft, and the family is living a good life.
After listening to Song Xiuniang's matter, the enthusiasm of the Tian family's daughter-in-law and granddaughter was completely mobilized, and even Tian Xiaoman, who was usually active, sat motionless and listened carefully. They were worried that they would not be able to learn this Su embroidery, so they had to straighten their ears and listen carefully, and their eyes widened to look carefully. Only the old god of the summer solstice is there, because the Su embroidery taught by Song Xiuniang happens to be her best.
Suzhou embroidery has a unique style of beautiful patterns, ingenious ideas, meticulous embroidery, lively stitching and elegant colors, and has strong local characteristics. Embroidery skills have the characteristics of "flat, qi, harmonious, light, smooth and even". In the modern summer solstice, it originated in the area of Wuxian County, Suzhou, and has now spread throughout Wuxi, Changzhou, Yangzhou, Suqian, Dongtai and other places in Jiangsu Province, the Qing Dynasty was in its heyday, and developed many schools. As for the birthplace and genre of Su embroidery in the Dawu Dynasty, Xia Zhi said that he really didn't know.
There are six kinds of traditional Suzhou embroidery methods, namely: straight embroidery, disc needle, set needle, and needle, grab needle, and flat needle. Among them, straight embroidery includes straight needles and wrapping needles; There are four types of disc needles: cutting needles, receiving needles, rolling needles, and rotating needles; There are six kinds of needles: single and double sets, wooden comb sets, set sets, partial hair sets, and live hair sets; Flat needles also include flat needles and nail threads.
In this way, after Song Xiuniang taught a kind of stitching every time, she began to teach everyone how to do it, Xia Zhi hurriedly sent the embroidery bandage the size of an adult's palm to everyone, and then one person sent a small rag.
Anyway, this unlucky ancient even to do an embroidery bandage has to go to the wood shop, fortunately the summer solstice has seen it before, directly use two large and small circles to card the cloth in the middle, although there are few circles that are attached to the conditions, it does not mean that there is none. As for the embroidery needle, the summer solstice was prescient, and it was the embroidery needle that I bought for the family before.
Before this, Song Xiuniang also said one thing, that is, to draw patterns, here is not like modern patterns that have been printed, it is completely handmade. Therefore, if you want to embroider a flower or a scene, you have to draw it on the paper and paint it on the cloth.
However, in Tianjia, paper is completely a luxury. Therefore, everyone's pictures are all the shape of a small grass directly sketched by Song Niangzi. This kind of simple outline is a piece of cake for an embroiderer like Song Xiuniang, who has been embroidering for more than ten years.
The daughter-in-law and granddaughter of the Tian family saw Song Xiuniang revealing this kung fu, which was a five-body throw with stars in their eyes and admiration. It makes Xia Solstice look very funny, but I didn't expect that there would be such a time in the family, and they usually look like 'harmonious'.
Of course, these are also small dishes for Xia Zhi, but after all, she has changed her five-year-old body, and she has some hands, not to mention, she is not good at acting in front of the Tian family. If she also came like Song Xiuniang, it is estimated that she would not be caught and burned to death by the Tian family, and it would definitely be considered a ghost possessed, so let's learn with everyone honestly, but occasionally you can be smarter. Xia Zhi said that we are smarter, you can't help us.
And in order to keep in line with everyone, Xia Solstice handed over the fish he cared about the most to his own father, but fortunately, Tian Laosi also learned a little bit with Xia Solstice every day. After all, this is not like a day to catch the market, this is five days, if something happens to the fish in these five days, there is no place to cry on the summer solstice, there is no veterinarian in this ancient world!
In this way, in addition to Xiao Bailu and Li who were still holding in their arms, the women of the Tian family were holding embroidery bandages in their left hands, and they were holding needles in their right hands and began to practice how to embroider Su embroidery with Song Xiuniang.
Looking at the crooked grass on the embroidery, Xia Zhi said that we are not trying to pretend to be a little like it, and resolutely refused to admit that this was embroidered by her who has been embroidering for more than ten years.