No need to outline, imaginary, but confident;
Flying needle leads, exquisite techniques, clever hands everywhere flowers;
The iron pestle becomes a needle, and it is tempered day by day, and the achievement is like a natural achievement.
"One stitch and one thread"
She is "Dong embroidery gold finger" Yang Tian
Today at 21:50, Guangxi Satellite TV "Guangxi Craftsmen" carries forward the spirit of craftsmen and plays the strong sound of the times
At the 2010 China-ASEAN Expo, there were hundreds of Dong embroidery works, which amazed the four sides. They were presented as a national gift by the organizing committee to the delegates. Why can this embroidery from an ancient nation go to the world, and what is its charm?
Dong embroidery is the intangible cultural heritage of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. A delicate piece of Dong embroidery, to go through textile, threading, printing and dyeing, cloth pounding, paper cutting, embroidery and other dozens of processes to complete, exquisite literature, bright colors. Yang Tian was the first person to embroider the Dong people and bring them out of the Dong village.
Dong embroidery, also known as paper-cut appliqué embroidery, before embroidery, first cut out the pattern, and then press the pattern on the bottom cloth, covered with colorful silk thread, the thickness of the silk thread, the depth of the color, the length of the stitches are exquisite.
Paper-cutting is the most testing part of Dong embroidery, after countless days and nights of tempering, Yang Tian's paper-cutting skills are pure fire, no need to hand-draw when cutting paper, the pattern is all imaginary. After a moment's thought, the pattern is clear. Cut the clouds in the moon, in one go.
Dong embroidery is exquisite and the stitching technique is exquisite. Stitching is mainly flat embroidery and lock embroidery, is the oldest stitching method in China, the three-dimensional sense is strong, the pattern is more lustrous, the pattern is exquisite and complex, sometimes on an inch of cloth, you can give seventy or eighty stitches.
To create a good embroidery work, the embroidery woman must unite her heart and hand, eye to eye, hand to heart. Apply evenly. Only the embroidery lady with profound skills can embroider the silk thread flat pattern, Yang Tian's embroidery is smooth and beautiful, like a natural, embroidery for many years, Yang Tian has gradually formed, her own creative style, her creation of the strap cover and wedding dress, the most famous.
The carrier cover is one of the most representative works of Dong embroidery, when women go to the meeting, they carry the baby on their backs and cover the baby's head with the carrier cover. Both sheltered from the wind and rain and warm and comfortable, the strap cover is square in general, black cotton as the base, the pattern is composed of multiple embroidery pieces and flowers, birds, insects and fish patterns, and the large round embroidery piece in the middle is patterned with some mysterious flowers. The Dong people call it "crab flower." ”
Ancient legends cannot be verified, but these legends are the source of inspiration for the creation of Dong embroidery. In order to retain the mysterious and original charm of Dong embroidery, Yang Tian embroidered these legends on the strap cover.
Every embroidery flower with a stitch and a thread and a strap cover is poured out of the mother's love and painstaking efforts, which is also an artistic treasure sewn by the craftsman over the years, sinking the heart and keeping the loneliness. Yang Tian, a folk craftsman, guards this ancient skill with simple piety.
After years of tempering, Yang Tian's skills have been pure. In 2008, it was rated as an autonomous region, an intangible cultural heritage project, a representative heir of Dong embroidery, and in 2012, he was awarded the title of Guangxi Master of Arts and Crafts, and created a number of excellent works. Adhering to and inheriting is the heavy responsibility shouldered by every craftsman, since 2015, Yang Tian has begun to gather, the embroidery lady in the village, to join the embroidery team, she held a Dong embroidery training class to teach embroidery skills to the Dong sisters. Vigorously develop the embroidery industry, help rural revitalization, exquisite Dong embroidery. Soon became the darling of the market, more and more orders, the fame of Dong embroidery is also getting bigger and bigger, the current average price of each piece of traditional Dong, embroidery products is 500 yuan. The annual output is about 10,000 pieces, and the annual output value reaches 5 million yuan. The per capita income of women participating in the training is about 20,000 yuan. The real fingertip technique has become a fingertip economy.
The Dong people have the custom of embroidering "mother to daughter, mother to daughter", but Yang Tian broke this limitation, widely accepted apprentices, and poured out her money to teach each other. At present, she has cultivated a number of outstanding apprentices, among which Qin Jinyuan has been awarded the non-hereditary heir of Liuzhou City. Wang Fen obtained the title of senior arts and crafts artist.
Since 2016, Yang Tian has been a teacher of the Guangxi "Three Districts" Talent Support Program Sanjiang Dong Traditional Costume Embroidery Skills Training Course. Jointly carry out Dong embroidery into the campus activities with local schools, and regularly visit the school every semester to give lessons to students in each class and train Dong embroidery skills.
Flying needles are threaded, flowers are used as a medium, and the gold finger of the craftsman Yang Tian dots flowers into gold. It is precisely because craftsmen like Yang Tian trace their roots and use embroidery threads to depict their love and yearning for a new life, that the ancient and mysterious Dong embroidery can last for a long time and shine brightly.
Editor| Mo Jiexin
Editor-in-charge 丨 Tang Myron