Paint with Needle and Thread

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Chinese Embroidery

By Shuang Qiao

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Paint with Needle and Thread explores the rich tradition of Chinese embroidery, a craft spanning two to three thousand years. Combining classic techniques with modern aesthetics, this book offers a comprehensive guide to mastering embroidery. It includes detailed text, close-up photographs, computer graphics, and step-by-step instructions. Readers will learn nearly 20 traditional techniques and create around 10 beautiful designs, such as butterflies, flowers, and kingfishers, while gaining inspiration for new creative projects. The appendix provides transfer patterns for easy application.
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This book is ideal for embroidery enthusiasts, textile artists, and anyone interested in traditional Chinese crafts or seeking to expand their creative skills in needlework.

Description

Embroidery is one of the most typical traditional crafts in China and has been practised for two to three thousand years—an art form that has survived through time. Paint with Needle and Thread combines the most classic techniques of Chinese embroidery with modern aesthetics to offer a new creative experience.

A comprehensive guide to embroidery, the book is illustrated with detailed text, close-up photographs, and computer graphics, along with step-by-step explanations of the process of embroidery. This book will help you to:

Understand the unique aesthetic designs and colour schemes that have emerged from traditional Chinese embroidery;
Fully master the tools, materials, and basic techniques used in embroidery;
Learn nearly 20 classic Chinese embroidery techniques, and use each one to embroider a beautiful small-sized piece or pattern;
Produce around 10 pieces, including butterflies, flowers, and kingfishers, integrating a variety of techniques;
Gain new inspiration and stimulate your imagination and creativity for new projects;
Find transfer patterns for each piece in the appendix for you to print out and use.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632880000

Publisher: Shanghai Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Shanghai Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 184.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 748g

Pages: 212

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Arts & Culture Arts and Crafts Non-Fiction Shuang Qiao

About the Author

Qiao Shuang is a teacher at Nanjing University of the Art and a doctoral candidate. She is mainly engaged in teaching, researching, and creating embroidery, as well as quilting, hand printing and dyeing, fiber art, and textile design, and has published several papers and books. Her work was awarded the gold medal in the International Young Artist Competition in France, and she was a visiting scholar at the ENSAD in Paris in 2006. In 2007, she was a visiting scholar at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Germany. She has been invited to participate in many art exhibitions in China and overseas.