Chapter 341 I heard but didn't understand
Yi Chichi looked at the embroidery first. It would have been fine if she hadn't looked at it, but she was shocked when she saw it. "Sister Qiu, you specialize in the gold-nailing embroidery of Chaozhou embroidery?"
That’s right, the embroidery that Qiu Yu showed was a gold-nail embroidery, also known as gold and silver embroidery.
Gold-nail embroidery is not a traditional embroidery, but a mainstream embroidery in Guangdong embroidery. Its craftsmanship is characterized by the use of techniques such as padding, embroidery, pasting, splicing and stitching, which make the embroidery present a three-dimensional artistic effect like relief.
In the original world, Yi Chichi knows a master who is good at gold nail embroidery. Compared with the four famous embroidery styles known to the world, not many people know about the gold nail embroidery, a branch of Guangdong embroidery.
However, it does not affect the technical value and collection value of gold embroidery at all.
Qiu Yu smiled and nodded and said yes, then asked her curiously, "Can you also embroider gold?"
Many people don’t know about gold embroidery, but Yi Chichi can tell at a glance that it is something that someone has dabbled in.
It seems like we can exchange some techniques.
It was a good plan, but Yi Chichi shook his head and said firmly, "No."
She really doesn't know how to do this. She has thought about learning it, but has never been able to put it into action because she doesn't have the time.
If it was Cantonese embroidery or Suzhou embroidery, she could still help a little, but she really couldn't help with gold-needle embroidery.
"Sister, I really can't help you with this."
"No, you can help!"
Qiu Yu has a different opinion on this and is full of confidence in Yi Chichi.
Before Yi Chichi could ask where her confidence came from, she pointed at the embroidery sample and said, "You are sensitive to colors. I want you to help mark the color difference of each color on the embroidery sample."
"Let me see."
Yi Chichi took the embroidery sample and looked at it. The composition was full and even, the colors were rich and gorgeous, with gold and silver threads as the main ingredients, and other colors as the supplementary ones.
The embroidery pattern is a large-scale picture of plum blossoms and sparrows.
The plum branches have a strong sense of layering in height and density. The large dried plums are interspersed in a concentrated and unified manner. The red plums on the branches have different postures, including buds, buds, buds about to bloom, and fully open ones.
The whole picture looks full of spirit.
The details of the kingfisher perched on a branch and singing with its neck stretched out are handled particularly well, and it comes alive as if there is a naughty kingfisher singing in front of you.
The painter who drew the plum and sparrow embroidery pattern is definitely a master.
“What a great painting!”
She praised it repeatedly, and Qiu Yu nodded in agreement, "This is Master Gu's painting."
I have heard of this Yi Chichi, and he is also a big boss that Friendship Store has cooperated with before.
She is good at embroidery and painting, but due to her old age, poor eyesight and unsteady hands, she can no longer work as an embroiderer.
"Did she leave it before she retired?"
"Um."
Qiu Yu nodded and said, "We kept three pieces. We have already finished embroidering the first two pieces. But this one is the only one that we dare not start because she has an eye disease and the color is not subdivided and the color difference cannot be controlled well."
I was afraid that the plum and sparrow painting would be ruined, and I was also afraid that if it wasn’t embroidered well, it would delay the Friendship Store’s two trade fairs next year.
Yi Chichi understood what she said, but was puzzled by her explanation, "The colors are handled very well, I can't tell them apart."
She could see at a glance the difference in colour across the embroidery.
"Red plum!"
Qiu Yu was also unambiguous, pointing at the red plum blossoms and saying, "The colored threads and woolen threads we were allocated are quite rich in color, with many different colors of red alone. However, after looking at this embroidery of red plum blossoms, a group of us felt that..."
She paused for a long time as if she didn't know how to describe the feeling of powerlessness in her heart, then she looked at Yi Chichi with a conflicted look and said, "I saw two kinds of red, Xiao Liu, who is more sensitive to colors, saw four, and the rest were all one."
At this point, she scratched her hair in annoyance, "It's that feeling of powerlessness when you can't grasp the color, do you understand?"
"Understand!"
Yi Chichi knows this very well. Her senior sister and Liu Lan both have this problem.
Liu Lan's situation is slightly better. She has shown obvious improvement after training. But the senior sister can't improve at all. Because the colors of the embroidery samples are not clearly marked for her, she can't handle the colors well when embroidering.
I often waste embroidery works. If I embroider a small amount, I can still take it apart, but if I embroider a large amount, I can’t take it apart. Just the materials are wasted, and a lot of it.
Unless she draws the embroidery pattern herself, but her drawing skills are not outstanding, she can only seek help from others for the embroidery pattern.
Yi Chichi is her external aid, and she is very good at handling colors.
After looking at the embroidery pattern again, Yi Chizhi pointed at one of the red plum blossoms and said, "Sister, look at this one. How many shades of red are there?"
Qiu Yu came over and stared at the place where she pointed for a long time, then hesitantly asked, "Red, pink?"
"Take another good look."
"Light red?"
Yi Chichi was almost numb, "When you were learning embroidery, didn't the teacher teach you how to deal with color changes?"
“Can this be taught?”
Qiu Yu was even more shocked than her. His eyes were as big as bells, looking like a teacher who was hiding his incompetence and was not interested in teaching.
Yi Chichi, "..."
Very good, I haven’t learned this before.
Should she teach from the beginning? Looking at the plum blossom and sparrow painting, and then at Qiu Yu, she hesitated for two seconds before deciding to teach.
"…The color of this plum blossom is from light to dark…"
She pointed at the plum blossoms and explained in detail the changes in the color of the plum blossoms, the influence of light and shadow on the color, and how to find patterns to observe and determine the color changes. It can be said that she knew everything.
After she finished speaking, she cast her expectant gaze on Qiu Yu's face, but found that his eyes were empty and his face was blank, and it was obvious that he didn't understand.
She swallowed and prepared to speak, but Qiu Yu, who didn't hear her, turned around and looked over, "Are you done?"
“…It’s over!”
"Why don't you tell me again? I didn't understand, and I didn't see the color changes you mentioned."
Her gentle face was full of innocence, and her not-so-young eyes were full of anticipation.
Yi Chichi, "!!!"
Yi Chichi gritted her teeth and decided to teach again. If he couldn't learn it this time, she would have to do it herself.
Then, she broke it apart and crushed it to teach. In order to make it more intuitive, she picked up the embroidery sample and observed the visual changes to determine the color differences of the plum and sparrow pattern.
In the end, all his efforts were in vain, Qiu Yu still couldn't learn it.
Taking a deep breath, she put down the embroidery pattern and rubbed her face. "Don't learn it anymore. You should observe the real objects more when you have nothing to do. You can train your eyesight through the changes in the real objects."
This is a very sincere suggestion, and it is also a method that helps the embroiderer's eyesight and color judgment. Qiu Yu can distinguish good from bad, and she did not feel dissatisfied that "I am so old and still need a little girl to teach me how to do this and that". Instead, she was grateful for her suggestion.
"Thank you! After today, I will definitely practice observation as you said."
Then, she asked curiously, "How did you develop your sensitivity to colors?"
"No, my sensitivity to colors is innate, and I have also been training myself."
Just like leaves, they sprout, grow leaves, mature into leaves and then fall off. The leaves will show obvious color differences depending on the weather and the changes in seasons.
Many people know this, but if you ask people to describe the specific changes in leaf color in each season or on rainy and sunny days, most people can't tell you.
At most, it will be new green, light green, dark green, etc.
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