Bead Embroidery: Chinese Style

Bead Embroidery is a craft that has been handed down for thousands of years in China. Records of it are found abundant in Chinese historical documents. Carrying both dazzling glamour and elegance, bead embroidery was popular among aristocrats in the imperial courts of China in successive dynasties. It has now become an indispensable part of haute couture garments and wedding gowns and accessories. When vibrant and colorful beads work with embroidery threads or yarns, they complement each other, adding to the richness of artistic representation of embroidery. It generates multiple visual effects and offers a broader space for imagination, thus elevating your design to a work of three-dimensions.The book intends to inject into Western embroidery designs such elements of Chinese culture as landscape and bird-and-flower paintings, poetry and legendary tales. Projects presented in the book are both beautiful to look upon and practical to use. You will start with simple designs and move on to more difficult ones, through which you learn the basics of bead embroidery. The book is a step-by-step guide that helps you learn to create nearly 30 pieces of unique bead embroidery work. It is also a journey for you to appreciate the beauty of bead embroidery bridging Chinese and western culture. With the help of this book, you will learn to ? use the different tools of bead embroidery, understand the features of different beads, sequins, etc. ;? master the rich techniques of bead embroidery using sewing needle and tambour hook needle and applying over a dozen stitches that are meant for single bead, multiple beads, free embroidery stitches and for layered-sequins;? make practical small items such as jewelries, coasters, ring bearer pillows, pouches and silk scarves.;? apply a variety of bead embroidery techniques to make such things as cosmetic bags, decorative paintings and lamp covers that have more sophisticated design and richer color. This more advanced part, which richly reflects Chinese culture in the designs, opens you up to endless potentials of bead embroidery and broadens the scope of your creative ideas.

Author: Yu Han

Publisher: Shanghai Press

Publication Date: Jan 10, 2024

Number of Pages: NA pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1632880113

ISBN-13: 9781632880116