a general term
Embroidery is a general term for a variety of decorative designs embroidered on fabric with needle and thread. Embroidery is divided into two kinds of silk thread embroidery and feather embroidery. It is the use of needles to silk thread or other fibers and yarns in a certain pattern and color on the embroidery material piercing, with embroidery marks constitute a pattern of decorative fabric. It is the art of adding human designs and productions to any fabric in existence using needles and threads.
Since the primitive society, people in order to wear clothes to keep warm, by grinding out the bone needle, bone cone, wooden cone, to make a variety of simple and simple clothing, handmade clothing also evolved from this very long time. Chinese culture is profound and profound, including the traditional clothing crafts with rich heritage. Take the traditional handmade embroidery craft for example, symbolizing the high and mighty such as the dragon and phoenix, representing the happy and auspicious such as the sun, moon and auspicious clouds, as well as landscapes with distinctive warp and weft, flowers and grasses between the strands, the exquisite national embroidery, the inheritance of thousands of years of ancient crafts