"This brocade is called Yunjin, and it's a tribute. Forget about it, ordinary people like us. When I cut it, I'll leave a piece for you. You can then embroider a picture of a koi carp offering auspiciousness and give it directly to the city lord's wife. If your embroidery is good, I'll give you a hundred taels for it. How about that?"
Listening to the boss's words, she naturally understood that this was the boss's appreciation of her. She gently stroked the brocade material again. It was soft and gentle to the touch. This kind of fabric was not suitable for embroidery. After all, this fabric was still a bit soft, and there was silver thread mixed in the fabric. It was very difficult to embroider it without deformation. However, since the employer had a request, she would naturally do her best to meet it. After all, making money was not shameful. If possible, she could take more of this kind of work. She could do it.
"This kind of fabric is so soft that it's not really suitable for embroidery. If you only embroider one side, it will become fraying easily over time without anyone taking care of it. If you embroider it directly on both sides with different colors, it will be much easier to take care of. I wonder how much you can offer me for a design like this?"
The owner of the embroidery shop smiled gently. He liked Wang Shiyu's fearlessness. As long as she had a dream, it would come true.
As for the different-colored embroidery she mentioned, there is actually no price for it. After all, most embroiderers are unwilling to embroider this kind of thing.
Not only is it tiring for the eyes, but it is also not easy to complete the design. Especially for some picky customers, they can always find various faults, which leads to the price being reduced again and again. Originally, double-sided embroidery with different colors was about three to four times more expensive than single-sided embroidery, but because those customers are too difficult to please.
Therefore, the price of this double-sided embroidery in different colors is only one or two times higher than the ordinary price. However, he originally used this thing to do a favor, so it didn't matter whether he made money or not. As long as the embroidery was good enough and the design was eye-catching enough to allow him to get on the boat of the City Lord's Mansion, it didn't matter if he spent some money.
"three times."
"make a deal!!!"
There was a gleam in the eyes of the old and the young, and they seemed to be very satisfied with the other party's quotation. So when cutting the brocade, the boss specially left her a long strip of brocade and asked her to take it home to embroider it herself. The area of this brocade was not very large, but if used properly, it would not be a problem to cut it into two pieces. It all depends on how Wang Shiyu wants to do it.
The owner of the embroidery workshop was worried that this matter would be used by the enemy to do something, so after making up his mind, he turned around and went to the city lord's mansion to tell the city lord's wife about it. When the city lord's wife heard that the other party wanted to embroider a picture of a koi carp offering auspiciousness for her son, and that the fabric would be used from the corners, she didn't care too much. She didn't lack this little bit of fabric, so she agreed directly.
In fact, they had put together this embroidery pattern just to get all three items together. After all, Jizhou City is close to the sea, and the taxes are high. There is also maritime trade, so the price must be high to show their sincerity.
The city lord's wife doesn't care whether it is a scam or not. As long as the money is in place, the people above won't say anything. She is worried to death about her son now, so she has no time to care about those things. As long as it is good for the child, she agrees.
After Wang Shiyu brought Yunjin home in the evening, she did not start embroidering the picture in a hurry. Instead, she packed up the things in her embroidery shed. By the way, she told her mother not to bring Ruirui to her place to make trouble in the future. This embroidery picture was worth four hundred taels of silver. Mo Ruru naturally would not make trouble, so she built a small shed under the dry tree over there for the two of them to play. Otherwise, the sun was too glaring and they could not sit still.
After hanging around in the embroidery workshop for a few more days and learning enough, she told the boss that she was going home to start embroidering. From that day on, Wang Shiyu no longer went to the embroidery workshop every day. Instead, she began to embroider a double-sided picture of different-colored koi fish offering auspiciousness at home. Wang Shiyu made some slight changes to this picture, making it more lively than those monotonous koi fish.
In order to make the color selection more harmonious, Wang Shiyu used a combination of gold and orange threads to embroider a koi on one side, and blue and white silk threads mixed with silver threads to embroider a carp on the other side. Two days were wasted just on matching the colors and choosing the embroidery threads. The owner of the embroidery workshop followed Wang Shiyu to watch her choose the threads. Almost all of the threads she chose were of excellent quality. These threads were very expensive, but the owner thought that he had given them to Wang Shiyu to open up opportunities for him in the embroidery workshop, so he reluctantly gave them to her and asked her to embroider well.
To streamline her time, she embroidered koi carp patterns during the day, and at night she would think about the skills the embroiderers had used in the past few days, slowly practicing with cotton cloth, after all, learning one more skill was a plus.
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