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Book:Threads of Light - Suzhou Needlework
Another wonderful needlework book on Asian embroidery to share, this
volume: Title: Threads of Light - Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum Editor: Patrick Dowdey Pub: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, L.A. 1999 ISBN: 0-930741-71-4 $45.00, paperback If I thought Painting with a Needle was a great book about Asian, Korean art embroidery, this book is even more stunning with its color pictures of Chinese embroideries stitched as fine art paintings, replicating in realistic stitching, the fine nature photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum......it's a real WOW book. This is not a technique book on how to stitch but a book filled with beautiful color pictures showing the embroideries of the famous Suzhou embroidery center interpreting fine landscape photographs into breathtaking stitched masterpieces.......the pictures are worth the cost of the book.....without reading the captions underneath, it's often difficult to tell which picture is a photo and which is an embroidery. Also illustrated are embroideries of Chinese scroll paintings and calligraphy, all so perfectly stitched that the needlework is able to replicate every brushstroke, watercolor techniques, including the soft blurring of the ink and colors along the edges of the painted images. I've never realized needlework like this could be done. But this book is a real eye opener on how far a very skilled embroiderer using a fine needle and silk thread with a creative mind can go, especially the background history of the two women responsible for the "discovery" and creation of the embroidery techniques currently being used......it's utterly amazing......the Suzhou Center is also the home of the finely stitched double sided embroideries many of us have heard about......this new group of embroideries shows even more of these embroiderer's finely honed skills. The essays give background info on the history of Chinese embroidery, history of the Suzhou school of needlework and the women involved in creating the "newer" traditions of modern Chinese embroideries. The chapters on the training of the Chinese women embroiderers is fascinating.......we learn what requirements are needed to be chosen as an embroiderer in this prestigious center and how the embroiderers are continually educated and work together to maintain the impeccable high standards of the needlework art projects they stitch. The chapter on Technical Aspects of Suzhou embroidery explains many interesting facts, including the color dyeing of the silk yarns.......can't imagine having so many glorious colors to work with but they do and dye what is needed among other technical background info. An interesting note about the stitching is the use of one very fine strand of silk threaded onto a very fine, long thin, wirelike needle with a tapered eye......there was a mention of using fine surgical needles, as well as curved needles. There is so much interesting information to absorb from the essays........as we do needlework, we can understand some of the feelings of these stitchers and what they're feeling in creating such monumental works of art. We understand the types of stitches and process of stitching but then we are blown away by the way and what these women stitch. It's all fascinating reading. The results of their stitching is stunning in the realistic textures they've created with the single strands of silk threads they use.......you can feel the bark, crackling dried leaves, textures of the plants, streams of water, even the cold texture of powdery snow on pine needles.......the stitching is so very fine, so real, it's hard to realize that you aren't looking at a fine oil or watercolor painting or in this case a fine nature photograph but you are looking at a picture of an embroidery........these needlework pictures look exactly as if someone had painted or photographed the image. An example of how fine the stitching is in the book is illusrated by three embroidered kitten heads......it's as if you're looking at a real kitten......you can feel the fur, the whiskers, see the glossy eyes........this is the type of embroidery art I've always dreamed about and never knew was possible to do! Now that I know it can be done, doubt if I'll ever get to this type and level of needlework unless I spend many more years studying, practicing stitch techniques, as well as being able to use the same fine stitching materials of fine silk threads on silk fabric........no matter, I'm glad to know more about this school of Chinese embroidery and how it's done......otherwise I'd probably imagine it was all done by celestial beings stitching with magical threads. This book is the third in a series of books published about textile art from the Fowler Museum Textile Series - UCLA Museum of Cultural History in conjunction with an exhibition of the textiles........I've been fortunate in being able to read several other publications from this Museum, each featuring a history of a particular textile as well as the culture of the people creating these textiles. Wrapped in Pride, featured Kente cloth from Ghana is one of the Fowler Textile series...... the following two books are other publications from the museum........A Quiet Spirit, a study of Amish Quilts.......Threads of Identity, a book about the colorful woven textiles from Guatamala. --- Lula http://www.woolydream.com Needlework Adventures |
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I was taken aback by your descriptions. AT the end, I didn't know
whether to feel eager to get my hands on it, or leave it alone lest I taunt myself with skills I'll never attain. grin I left your post intact for those that might miss it the first time - all the little computer problems these days. Thank you so very much for sharing this. So much to learn, so little time, so few masters to teach it. Dianne Lula wrote: Another wonderful needlework book on Asian embroidery to share, this volume: Title: Threads of Light - Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum Editor: Patrick Dowdey Pub: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, L.A. 1999 ISBN: 0-930741-71-4 $45.00, paperback If I thought Painting with a Needle was a great book about Asian, Korean art embroidery, this book is even more stunning with its color pictures of Chinese embroideries stitched as fine art paintings, replicating in realistic stitching, the fine nature photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum......it's a real WOW book. This is not a technique book on how to stitch but a book filled with beautiful color pictures showing the embroideries of the famous Suzhou embroidery center interpreting fine landscape photographs into breathtaking stitched masterpieces.......the pictures are worth the cost of the book.....without reading the captions underneath, it's often difficult to tell which picture is a photo and which is an embroidery. Also illustrated are embroideries of Chinese scroll paintings and calligraphy, all so perfectly stitched that the needlework is able to replicate every brushstroke, watercolor techniques, including the soft blurring of the ink and colors along the edges of the painted images. I've never realized needlework like this could be done. But this book is a real eye opener on how far a very skilled embroiderer using a fine needle and silk thread with a creative mind can go, especially the background history of the two women responsible for the "discovery" and creation of the embroidery techniques currently being used......it's utterly amazing......the Suzhou Center is also the home of the finely stitched double sided embroideries many of us have heard about......this new group of embroideries shows even more of these embroiderer's finely honed skills. The essays give background info on the history of Chinese embroidery, history of the Suzhou school of needlework and the women involved in creating the "newer" traditions of modern Chinese embroideries. The chapters on the training of the Chinese women embroiderers is fascinating.......we learn what requirements are needed to be chosen as an embroiderer in this prestigious center and how the embroiderers are continually educated and work together to maintain the impeccable high standards of the needlework art projects they stitch. The chapter on Technical Aspects of Suzhou embroidery explains many interesting facts, including the color dyeing of the silk yarns.......can't imagine having so many glorious colors to work with but they do and dye what is needed among other technical background info. An interesting note about the stitching is the use of one very fine strand of silk threaded onto a very fine, long thin, wirelike needle with a tapered eye......there was a mention of using fine surgical needles, as well as curved needles. There is so much interesting information to absorb from the essays........as we do needlework, we can understand some of the feelings of these stitchers and what they're feeling in creating such monumental works of art. We understand the types of stitches and process of stitching but then we are blown away by the way and what these women stitch. It's all fascinating reading. The results of their stitching is stunning in the realistic textures they've created with the single strands of silk threads they use.......you can feel the bark, crackling dried leaves, textures of the plants, streams of water, even the cold texture of powdery snow on pine needles.......the stitching is so very fine, so real, it's hard to realize that you aren't looking at a fine oil or watercolor painting or in this case a fine nature photograph but you are looking at a picture of an embroidery........these needlework pictures look exactly as if someone had painted or photographed the image. An example of how fine the stitching is in the book is illusrated by three embroidered kitten heads......it's as if you're looking at a real kitten......you can feel the fur, the whiskers, see the glossy eyes........this is the type of embroidery art I've always dreamed about and never knew was possible to do! Now that I know it can be done, doubt if I'll ever get to this type and level of needlework unless I spend many more years studying, practicing stitch techniques, as well as being able to use the same fine stitching materials of fine silk threads on silk fabric........no matter, I'm glad to know more about this school of Chinese embroidery and how it's done......otherwise I'd probably imagine it was all done by celestial beings stitching with magical threads. This book is the third in a series of books published about textile art from the Fowler Museum Textile Series - UCLA Museum of Cultural History in conjunction with an exhibition of the textiles........I've been fortunate in being able to read several other publications from this Museum, each featuring a history of a particular textile as well as the culture of the people creating these textiles. Wrapped in Pride, featured Kente cloth from Ghana is one of the Fowler Textile series...... the following two books are other publications from the museum........A Quiet Spirit, a study of Amish Quilts.......Threads of Identity, a book about the colorful woven textiles from Guatamala. --- Lula http://www.woolydream.com Needlework Adventures |
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This was the first non-teaching embroidery book I ever bought. My
mother and I drooled all over it, and as a result, got started in Japanese embroidery. It is absolutely fabulous, and I honestly believe it belongs in the library of every serious stitcher, if only to show just how much more can be done. On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:41:48 GMT, Lula wrote: Another wonderful needlework book on Asian embroidery to share, this volume: Title: Threads of Light - Chinese Embroidery from Suzhou and the photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum Editor: Patrick Dowdey Pub: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, L.A. 1999 ISBN: 0-930741-71-4 $45.00, paperback If I thought Painting with a Needle was a great book about Asian, Korean art embroidery, this book is even more stunning with its color pictures of Chinese embroideries stitched as fine art paintings, replicating in realistic stitching, the fine nature photography of Robert Glenn Ketchum......it's a real WOW book. This is not a technique book on how to stitch but a book filled with beautiful color pictures showing the embroideries of the famous Suzhou embroidery center interpreting fine landscape photographs into breathtaking stitched masterpieces.......the pictures are worth the cost of the book.....without reading the captions underneath, it's often difficult to tell which picture is a photo and which is an embroidery. Also illustrated are embroideries of Chinese scroll paintings and calligraphy, all so perfectly stitched that the needlework is able to replicate every brushstroke, watercolor techniques, including the soft blurring of the ink and colors along the edges of the painted images. I've never realized needlework like this could be done. But this book is a real eye opener on how far a very skilled embroiderer using a fine needle and silk thread with a creative mind can go, especially the background history of the two women responsible for the "discovery" and creation of the embroidery techniques currently being used......it's utterly amazing......the Suzhou Center is also the home of the finely stitched double sided embroideries many of us have heard about......this new group of embroideries shows even more of these embroiderer's finely honed skills. The essays give background info on the history of Chinese embroidery, history of the Suzhou school of needlework and the women involved in creating the "newer" traditions of modern Chinese embroideries. The chapters on the training of the Chinese women embroiderers is fascinating.......we learn what requirements are needed to be chosen as an embroiderer in this prestigious center and how the embroiderers are continually educated and work together to maintain the impeccable high standards of the needlework art projects they stitch. The chapter on Technical Aspects of Suzhou embroidery explains many interesting facts, including the color dyeing of the silk yarns.......can't imagine having so many glorious colors to work with but they do and dye what is needed among other technical background info. An interesting note about the stitching is the use of one very fine strand of silk threaded onto a very fine, long thin, wirelike needle with a tapered eye......there was a mention of using fine surgical needles, as well as curved needles. There is so much interesting information to absorb from the essays........as we do needlework, we can understand some of the feelings of these stitchers and what they're feeling in creating such monumental works of art. We understand the types of stitches and process of stitching but then we are blown away by the way and what these women stitch. It's all fascinating reading. The results of their stitching is stunning in the realistic textures they've created with the single strands of silk threads they use.......you can feel the bark, crackling dried leaves, textures of the plants, streams of water, even the cold texture of powdery snow on pine needles.......the stitching is so very fine, so real, it's hard to realize that you aren't looking at a fine oil or watercolor painting or in this case a fine nature photograph but you are looking at a picture of an embroidery........these needlework pictures look exactly as if someone had painted or photographed the image. An example of how fine the stitching is in the book is illusrated by three embroidered kitten heads......it's as if you're looking at a real kitten......you can feel the fur, the whiskers, see the glossy eyes........this is the type of embroidery art I've always dreamed about and never knew was possible to do! Now that I know it can be done, doubt if I'll ever get to this type and level of needlework unless I spend many more years studying, practicing stitch techniques, as well as being able to use the same fine stitching materials of fine silk threads on silk fabric........no matter, I'm glad to know more about this school of Chinese embroidery and how it's done......otherwise I'd probably imagine it was all done by celestial beings stitching with magical threads. This book is the third in a series of books published about textile art from the Fowler Museum Textile Series - UCLA Museum of Cultural History in conjunction with an exhibition of the textiles........I've been fortunate in being able to read several other publications from this Museum, each featuring a history of a particular textile as well as the culture of the people creating these textiles. Wrapped in Pride, featured Kente cloth from Ghana is one of the Fowler Textile series...... the following two books are other publications from the museum........A Quiet Spirit, a study of Amish Quilts.......Threads of Identity, a book about the colorful woven textiles from Guatamala. --- Lula http://www.woolydream.com Needlework Adventures |
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