For five days, Song Niangzi almost talked about an embroidery method every day. Every morning, after the embroidery method, let everyone practice in the afternoon. And during these five days, the women of the Tian family were learning embroidery almost from morning to night.

Now the conditions of the Tian family have improved a lot, and there is a lamp at home, so almost after dinner, everyone sits on the kang and practices embroidery together.

At first, after the daughter-in-law of the Tian family finished the housework, she walked into the hall lightly to listen to the lecture. It's just that they find it easy to interrupt Song Xiuniang, and sometimes because they are absent for too long, whenever they practice, they don't know what to do. In addition to teaching everyone embroidery every day, Song Niangzi also has to rush to repair. The daughter-in-law of the Tian family didn't want to delay her work, so she had to ask her daughters, but they were also novices, and they hadn't figured it out yet, let alone giving lessons to others.

So later, in addition to the work of cooking, other things were directly picked and thrown to the men of the Tian family, and the men of the Tian family did not complain, and took over the housework of their daughter-in-law with hard work, as for cooking, they had no choice.

On the first day, Song Xiuniang taught everyone straight embroidery; Straight embroidery is divided into straight needles and winding needles.

The so-called straight needle is completely embroidered with vertical thread into the body, and the line lifting and falling needles are all at the edge, all are parallel ratios, and the edges are neat. Color matching is a unit, a color line, and there is no harmony. Where the stitches are too long, they are nailed with threads, and later it evolved into the stitching method of laying needles and carving.

The wrapping needle is embroidered with a short line of oblique lines around the body, and there is a needle from this side to the needle from that side, and the direction is the same.

The next day is the disc needle; The disc needle is a stitch method that expresses a curved body. There are four types of needles: cutting needles, receiving needles, rolling needles, and rotating needles. Among them, the cutting needle was the earliest, and later developed to the rotary needle.

The cutting needle is also called a "needle", and the needle is connected to the needle and pierced. The second needle must be connected to the original eye of the first needle, and the stitches should be as thin as fish roe, the so-called "one sesame seed three needles", which is here.

The straight line of the pin can be elongated, but it will be thrown up because the line is too long and loose. Cutting the needle lengthens the line, but the stitch is exposed.

Rolling needles are also called curved needles, and the needles are pressed and embroidered. The second pin is inserted into the middle of the first stitch a little forward, pressing the line closely, hiding the stitch under the line, the third pin is connected to the first stitch and the tail of the stitch is a little forward, and so on.

Rotary needle is a kind of needle method that is embroidered by circling and rolling needles. When embroidering, use a short needle to coil the needle along the pattern of the shape, even dense without revealing the stitches.

The third day is a sleeve of needles; Its main characteristics are that the outer edge of the first skin is neat, the needle row is dense, and the inner length is uneven. There are six types: single and double sets, wooden comb sets, set sets, partial hair sets, and live hair sets.

A single set is also known as a flat set. Its embroidery method is the first batch of needles from the edge, and the edge is neat; The second batch drops the needles in the first batch, and the first batch needs to leave a gap to accommodate the needles of the second batch; The third batch needs to be transferred to the last one centimeter of the first batch, and then leave a gap for the fourth batch of needles; The fourth batch was connected to the second batch of last ......; And so on.

The embroidery method of the double set is the same as that of the single set, but it is deeper than the single set and the number of batches is shorter. It is connected by the fourth batch and the first batch, that is, the second batch is connected to the first batch of three-quarters, the third batch is connected to the first batch of two-quarters, and the fourth batch is connected to the first batch of quarters.

The embroidery method of the wooden comb cover is the same as that of the single set, but it is looser than the single set. It is after the first batch is out, the second batch drops the needle at the first half of the batch, one needle is set every other line, the second batch is connected to the end of the first batch, and is sandwiched in the gap left by the second batch.

The embroidery method of the set is also like a single set, but the first batch of needles at the outer mouth is more, and the number of needles is less than a batch of embroidery, and the short needles are hidden in batches. After embroidering to the most, the surrounding lines are all concentrated in one eye, and one by one overlaps, like a single set.

The partial hair set is the set of embroidering bird feathers, that is, the set of embroidery feathers. Its method city: according to the texture of the piece of hair for embroidery, the method is the same as the double set, but the line is slightly long. Therefore, some people also call it "long and short sets".

The live wool sleeve is a stitch method used for embroidering animals. There are two ways to set it: one is to embroider three needles flatly, and then add a cross needle to the third needle. There is a certain pattern in this embroidery method, and it is embroidered in groups. The second is tight on the inside, with a radial shape on the outside, embroidered from the outside to the inside, and the thread on the second batch is covered with half of the previous batch and falls to the needle, turning according to the shape of the animal. There are also embroidery methods that are embroidered together.

On the fourth day, I learned to make and grab needles. The needle is also known as the long and short needle, this needle method is the long and short needle is uneven and interchangeable, the back needle is drawn out from the middle of the front needle, the edge is uneven, there is the advantage of color mixing and shun, which can be used to embroider the image of simulation.

Snatching a needle, also known as a needle, is a needle method that uses a short straight needle to follow the posture of the body, and then the needle follows the front needle, and grabs it one by one. It can be said that this stitching method is a development of the straight needle.

On the fifth day, I learned flat needles; Flat needle embroidery includes flat needles and nail threads.

Flat needles are embroidered with gold and silver threads instead of silk threads. The method: first use the gold thread or silver thread to spread on the embroidery ground, and then use the silk thread short needle to pierce it, each needle distance is one to one and a half minutes, according to the embroidery pattern and swirl to fill, there are two or three rows, there are also multiple rows. The thread should be tied like a cross pattern on the flower, like a pattern on the sole of a shoe.

Nail thread is a special embroidery method in which thin colored thread replaces gold thread. This kind of color line is called the brown line, also called the root line. Its embroidery method is similar to that of flat gold, because it has many thread colors, and the objects that can be embroidered are much wider than that of flat gold.

At the same time, Song Xiuniang also summed up some experience for everyone, such as showing the tree pole and branches, the roots should start from the root of the tree pole with a winding needle, the center of the leaf branch is the leaf stem, and the leaf stem is embroidered in two parts from the root of the leaf as a step line.

The embroidered flower starts from the middle of the petals, the flower is the center of the picture, and the center of the flower is the center of the flower. Embroidery from the middle can grasp the general direction of the petals.

The first thing to embroider the bird is to see where it is covered, it should be embroidered first, such as the back of the bird on the tail first, the tail is embroidered first, and the wings are covered on the bird's body, so the body of the bird is embroidered first, and then the wings are embroidered.

The order of embroidering landscapes should be from far to near, from back to front. There are front and back, and the back should be embroidered first and then the front

Embroidered animals first embroider from the feet inside, and then embroider from the tail to the head, and some embroider from the ears upside down to the face, when embroidering the face, first embroider the eyes and then the nose, and then embroider the most and then to the full.

The whole thing is from the inside out, from far to near, from the inside to the outside, from the bottom to the top.

In five days, the women of the Tian family almost frantically learned Suzhou embroidery, and they all wanted to take advantage of the time when Song Xiuniang was still there, and they could embroider simple works, even if it was a flower, but this Suzhou embroidery is a process of accumulation, and almost no one can embroider a complete pattern on the summer solstice.

By the evening of the fifth day, the women of the Tian family had reached the extreme point of forgetting to sleep and eat, and seeing that Song Xiuniang was leaving tomorrow, they all wanted to hurry. Song Xiuniang is also responsible. The Tian family stayed up late, and she also accompanied her, almost waiting for the time to come out, everyone finished embroidering a flower in their hands, and pointed out to them the shortcomings and how to match it better. Then they went to rest.

Xia Zhi said that he really didn't expect that Uncle Niang and his sister didn't love learning so much, which is more energetic than the students in the third year of high school!

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