Wall painting

Wall painting , Xiang Embroidery of Shaping, Changsha, Hunan

Wall painting, Xiang Embroidery of Shaping, Changsha, Hunan;

Features:

Xiang Embroidery in Changsha is well renowned in China. Hand embroidery craft items such as clothes, bags, wall hangings, handkerchiefs and other decorative items are popular souvenir for travelers.

It uses pure silk, hard satin, soft satin and nylon as it's material, which are connected with colorful silk threads. The thin silk thread can be divided up to many strands that are barely visible. The embroider can split the hair-thin colored silk thread into fiilaments-half, quarter,or more of it's original thickness and uses these to create sutble and refined visions of beauty. The stitches are very disciplined and critical. The varous colored threads are mixed together showing a gradual change in color with a rich and harmonious tone. Xiang Embroidery is high detailed and there is more handwork involved to complete these artistic pieces.

Wall painting