the chinese uses an arrangement of 3 seed stitches to secure the start and the end of the embroidery thread. In good chinese embroidery there should not be a single knot unless it is pekingeese.
Tania [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone who can embroider ultimately has my respect. It is amazing what that embellishment can do for any project, how it can alter it so much in appearance. A lady friend of mine brought some of her Chinese antiques for display at our China themed tea and what she had was amazing. She bought them there years ago for a song and are probably worth over a thousand dollars! She had a skirt going back to the 1800s (not sure which dynasty that would have been) but let me tell you.. it was made of a series of different coloured silk panels all pleated over one another vertically, and each panel was hand embroidered the full length!! She had many peices of the same quality and all the embroidery was done by hand and it was so fine, that you could NOT find a single knot on the back, the embroidery was reversible!! We guessed that the artists must have used a continuous stitch but the use of colours in each design was immense so it's mind boggling trying to understand how. There was a peice of embroidery that was a decorative piece, it was a little white cat chasing a grasshopper but it was set in round glass with a round wooden frame and stand and all there was was the cat and the grasshopper further down, they weren't even connected and it was too reversible, it looked so real the rendering of the fur! ________________________________________________________________________ More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
