Wei Yongluo entered the palace as an embroidered woman to secretly investigate the cause of her sister's death, and the first big crisis she encountered when she came to the palace was to sew a thousand autumn gifts for the empress, a phoenix robe made of peacock feather thread.
This peacock feather thread is made of gold and silver thread and peacock feathers, and the best weaver girl can only weave one meter a day, so it is extremely precious.
Grandma Zhang valued Wei Yongluo and gave her the job.
Because the peacock feather thread is a twisted thread, it is much thicker than the general silk thread, which not only increases the difficulty of weaving and embroidery, but also the finished product is relatively difficult to preserve. In comparison, Wei Yongluo chose the flat gold method and the lock embroidery method.
"Flat gold method" is a kind of embroidery method in the Sui and Tang dynasties, using gold thread to flatten the pattern on the embroidery surface, and then using silk thread nails to firmly fix.
Lock embroidery is a major stitching method in mainland Shang to Han embroidery. It is made of embroidery loop lock set, and the embroidery effect is like a chain, so it is called lock embroidery. It is generally made of parallel equimensite lines and needle buckles, which are relatively strong and uniform. Because of its braid-shaped appearance, it is also commonly known as "braided strand needle".
Wei Yongluo knew that the peacock feather thread was precious, and he also knew that he was estranged from the palace women in the embroidery workshop, so he did not dare to leave easily, and he guarded the peacock feather thread day and night to make a phoenix robe, for fear of making a mistake.
The palace maid JiXiang, who was good with Ying Luo, could not look at it, afraid that she would be tired of her body, so she let Ying Luo go to dinner first, help her keep it, and under all kinds of persuasion, Ying Luo agreed, and before leaving, she also instructed Ji Xiang to be inseparable. When Wei Yongluo was halfway through eating, he heard someone say that the palace maid had walked in water, and hurried to go, but found that someone had baked clothes with a charcoal basin and almost caused a fire.
After Wei Yongluo put out the fire with water, she found that Ji Xiang had also arrived, and the clothes on the charcoal basin were still hers. Ji Xiang was very confused, he clearly did not dry clothes, how could this be. Wei Yongluo saw the auspiciousness, and immediately thought that the peacock feather line was afraid that it would be unguarded, so it was easy to have an accident, which was likely to be a tiger away from the mountain.
However, when Wei Yongluo arrived at the embroidery workshop, he found that the peacock feather thread had been stolen, and the half-sewn phoenix robe had also been destroyed.
In an emergency, Wei Yongluo had to reconsider her mind, and when she went to the storeroom to check, she found the deer tail fluff and calculated it for a while.
On the day of the Empress's birthday, Wei Yongluo went alone with the birthday gift, and waited until all the parties had finished sending the gifts before she went in to offer gifts. However, Wei Yongluo did not dare to reveal the birthday gift, and even if someone urged him, he kept delaying the time until the emperor sent someone to send a birthday bell to the empress.
Wei Yongluo took advantage of the fact that the empress was very happy to see The Assistant Shou Zhong, and only then took out the phoenix robe prepared by the embroidery workshop. In the end, he was praised by the Queen and stood out from all the birthday gifts.
It turned out that in recent days, the empress had become more and more extravagant and wasteful in the palace, and had suggested to the emperor that she should re-advocate thrift and thrift. So Wei Yongluo re-sewed the phoenix robe from the deer tail fluff in the warehouse.
When she presented it, everyone accused Wei Yongluo of fooling the empress with cheap things. She explained that before the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus often used deer tail fluff to make clothes, and using it to make phoenix robes was also to remember the hardships of the ancestors' entrepreneurship, moreover, the empress dowager was also advocating harem frugality recently, so she boldly abandoned the peacock feather line and used deer tail fluff to make clothes. This statement hit the queen's mind and won the queen's appreciation.
However, after the birthday feast, Wei Yongluo knelt in front of the Changchun Palace and told the empress the truth.
After listening to the ins and outs of Wei Yongluo's sewing of the phoenix robe, the empress told her that she had already known that this dress was not so simple, but she did not want to punish it, so she followed her words. It was just that she did not understand why Wei Yongluo insisted on waiting until the end to take out the phoenix robe, Wei Yongluo said that she knew that no matter what empress the emperor sent, she must be happy, so she chose to send a congratulatory gift when the empress was in a good mood, and the more likely it was to escape punishment.
The empress couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, and she liked Ying Luo very much, and after she left, she asked Er Qing to find a way to transfer Wei Ying Luo to her palace. Because of the misfortune, Wei Yongluo had the opportunity to go to the empress's palace, and later in the relationship with the empress, he regarded the empress as his sister and spent a very happy time.
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Highlights of this issue: Flat gold method Lock embroidery method
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