According to Dai Lan, director of the office of Chengdu Shu Embroidery Factory, Chengdu Shu Embroidery Class will be divided into three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced, and all Shu Embroidery lovers can sign up. The lecturer will be composed of seven arts and crafts masters from Shu Embroidery Factory.
"Shu embroidery", also known as "Sichuan embroidery", is the general name of embroidery products centered on Chengdu, Sichuan. According to the records of Huayang Guozhi, a regular song in Jin Dynasty, Shu embroidery was very famous at that time, just like Shu brocade, and was known as the treasure of Shu. Shu embroidery in Qing dynasty has formed a professional production, and there are many embroidery shops in Chengdu, which both embroider and sell.
Shu embroidery technique is extremely exquisite. An embroidery needle weighs only 2 grams, but it is not easy to show hundreds of needles and countless colored lines on the surface of gauze as thin as spider silk.
Shu embroidery originated in western Sichuan, with soft satin and colored silk as the main raw materials, and its embroidery techniques are very unique, with at least 100 exquisite needle embroidery techniques. The giant screen of Lotus Carp in the Sichuan Hall of the Great Hall of the People, the hanging screen of Gong Shu's masterpiece Yan Le, the screen of Water Carp with different colors on both sides and the screen of Giant Panda are all representative works of Shu embroidery. However, the present situation that there is no successor to Shu embroidery is worrying. There is only one Chengdu Shu embroidery factory in Sichuan, and the situation is not good. A small number of embroidery workers are over 30 years old, so it is difficult to inject "fresh blood". Some experts say that the development of beautiful Shu embroidery is seriously lagging behind that of Suzhou embroidery, which is known as "a million embroiderers".