Posted 2016/11/23
Sanlin embroidery is specific and outstanding to the Sanlin area of Shanghai. In the ancient time, Sanlin embroidery was named "Jun Embroidery". The makers pull colored threads through a background material with embroidery needles to stitch colored patterns that have been previously designed on the textile material. It is famous for its thin threads, dense stitches and various kinds of stitches, variety of color, refinement and delicacy; in addition it has no stitch mark left. Its unique craft of “drawing, pulling and carving" is absolutely second to none. (“drawing“ means drawing off several threads from the silk, so as to form a certain geometrical pattern; “pulling“ means using a needle and thread to pull the silk to manifold motif patterns; “carving“ means cutting some parts from the plane with a scissor and then carve it to hollow-out three-dimensional images
