Splendid panda works.
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Yizhou Half Arm developed with the theme of "Jinjiang Lantern Shadow".
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"Step by step" series of high heels.
Photo by Wang Liwen
China News Service, Chengdu, May 22 (Wang Liwen) "We hope that the Shu Brocade and Shu Embroidery we make has the characteristics and recognition of Chengdu, and we have to take the road that others have not traveled." On the 22nd, Shu Jing, founded by Zhong Ming In the studio of the museum, Liu Daohua, an embroiderer with more than ten years of embroidery years, is embroidering giant pandas on Shu brocade designed by AI drawing technology.
The photos and patterns specified by the customer are drawn into the design draft by digital image processing technology, and then the Shu brocade fabric is woven by the machine.
Zhong Ming's team greatly shortened the time for pattern drawing through AI drawing, and made each work unique.
Zhong Ming said: "In this way, traditional Shu brocade and Shu embroidery can meet the customized needs of customers with rich presentation methods, and also get rid of the limitations of the content and themes such as flowers, birds, insects and fish in traditional works, and fit the aesthetic taste of contemporary consumers. It has also won the favor of young people who are pursuing individuality.”
Zhong Ming has been engaged in traditional handicrafts for 17 years. In 2016, he began to study the combination of image processing technology and Shu embroidery. In the creative stage, he explored the planning and distribution of splendid embroidery, color matching, pattern simplification, and fashion evolution. .
Cultural inheritance needs more people to participate.
In Zhong Ming's opinion: "'AI New Splendid' is a response to marketization, and it also broadens the possibility of expressing traditional handicrafts, so that Shu embroidery can enter thousands of households, and traditional intangible cultural heritage can also be reborn."
Shu brocade and Shu embroidery handicrafts are divided into artistic Shu embroidery and practical Shu embroidery. Art splendid is an important position for the expression of traditional splendid regional characteristics and the adherence to technical stitching.
At present, the Shu Jing Museum has made new attempts on the theme of flowers and Tibetan, Qiang and Yi characters, and has cooperated with Hao Shuping and Meng Dezhi, two national intangible inheritors of Shu embroidery. There will be "AI New Splendid" flowers and characters. breakthrough.
"Today's Shu embroidery is far superior to any era in terms of artistry and skill, but art Shu embroidery is destined to not be worn on the body." After finding the way to survive in modern society with the combination of splendor through AI technology, Zhong Ming's team began to think again. You can't walk on two legs and bring Shu Jin and Shu Embroidery back to life.
In 2021, the team used AI technology to make a fuss about high heels and Yizhou half-arms, and launched a series of high-heeled shoes of "Blooming Flowers" and Yizhou Half-arms with the theme of "Jinjiang Lantern Shadow". Traditional Shu embroidery elements collided with fashionable appearance.
"Yizhou Half Arm is a famous clothing category in history. The 'Jinjiang Lantern Shadow' pattern is collected from the colorful lights on the Jinjiang River at night, and processed into a splendid design draft by AI technology." Zhong Ming hopes that the Yizhou Half Arm combined with Splendid will become a The Sichuan Hanfu logo, even if there are no elements such as giant pandas and hibiscus flowers, can be recognized by people at a glance: Look, that is Yizhou Hanfu, a Hanfu from Chengdu.
This year, Zhong Ming's team is going to make a Splendid Home Slipper with reference to the Yuntou shoes of the Tang Dynasty. This slipper will change the pattern of Baoxiang flowers on the traditional Yuntou shoes, and replace them with customized patterns provided by customers, which can not only give the splendid modernity It also uses intangible cultural heritage techniques to customize the exclusive "Chengdu Memory".
After more than ten years of exploration, Zhong Ming's team has found two ways of art splendid and practical splendid.
Talking about the future, Zhong Ming said that at present the studio's power to inherit Shu Jin and Shu Embroidery is still very limited. "Only more people can participate and industrialize the production of Jinxiu, so that our development speed can be faster and the pace can be bigger," Chengdu Memory said. 'Can demonstrate 'Chinese craftsmanship' and carry out 'world expression'".
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