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!
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