Xiang embroidery with the excellent technique and unique style
is a well-known handicraft created by Hunan people, and one of the
famous four embroideries.
Xiang embroidery of long standing is originated from the folk embroidery
in Hunan province. From the excavated embroidery sample of the Chu
grave in Changsha area in 1958, embroidery in Hunan had a definite
development in Spring and autumn period around 2500 years ago. Also,
from the forty excavated embroidery clothes in Mawang pile of Changsha
area in 1972, we can find that the embroidery in Hunan had developed
in a higher lever around 2100 years ago of West Han dynasty. After
this, during the endless development, the elegant art style had formed
gradually. With the producing development of the Xiang embroidery
articles in modern society, even the arduous creation of ampliate
and some outstanding artists' joining in for the improvement of the
Xiang embroidery, people use many fine tradition of the Chinese painting
on the embroidery, together with the traditional painting, embroidery,
poem, calligraphy, inscriptions etc. some arts skillful to form the
basis of Chinese painting with more than seventy kinds of stitches
and one hundred embroidery colors, to fully show the virtue of stitches,
to score the point of the complete article in a subtle way. Maybe
you know now, that embroidery has the precise composition, vivid visualize,
wonderful color and beefy material. The magnificent vigour of the
far view and the lifelike art effect, are the unique Xiang embroidery
well known around China and overseas.
Xiang embroidery has the hard damask, soft damask, transparent glass
gauze, and nylon as the fine artworks. Embroidery articles have not
only the rare enjoyed artworks, but also handsome and practical commodities,
including the screen, picture, bedcover, pillowslip, bedspread, cushion,
table cloth, handkerchief and all kinds of embroidery clothes etc.