【Commentary】More than 500 years ago, Concubine Lou of the Changning Royal Mansion in Jiangxi Province made calligraphy and paintings with hair embroidery, becoming the first generation inheritor of Gan hair embroidery. A few days ago, the reporter walked into a building in Donghu District, Nanchang City, and Tao Yonghong, the seventeenth generation inheritor of Gan hair embroidery, was burying his head in flying needles to show his hair embroidery skills.
With its unique charm, hair embroidery is known as "a must in the East". Gan hair embroidery refers to a folk hand-embroidery art with Gan Po regional characteristics that evolved on the basis of Gan embroidery and embroidered on cloth fabric with hair as the thread.
Tao Yonghong told reporters that embroidery with hair can withstand the years and not rot for thousands of years. She began to learn Gan hair embroidery techniques from her mother Song Dehua at the age of 8, expanded the Gan hair embroidery stitch method to more than <> kinds, and also developed the "swirl stitch method" and hair dyeing technology, expanded "ink embroidery" to "color hair embroidery", and customized a series of relevant standards for this handicraft technique.
【During the same period】The seventeenth generation inheritor of Gan Fa embroidery Tao Yonghong
In the process of inheritance, all our crafts, including our craftsmanship, have undergone some standardized customization, for example, now we have 24 processes, 62 processes, 24 sets of needle methods, 20 sets of auxiliary needle methods, including the level of our embroidery, from the first to the eighth level of a grade of distribution, all of these are standardized, including the standardization of the price of our products to the market, we also broke the millennium handmade products are not standardized this (situation).
【Commentary】Tao Yonghong introduced that the art of Gan hair embroidery is divided into upper embroidery process, base drawing process, hair embroidery process, embroidery framing process, hair bleaching and dyeing, short hair splicing process and other aspects, each aspect has a variety of small processes, extremely complex.
However, as a branch of folk embroidery, hair embroidery has limited spread and influence. At the same time, due to the long time of hair embroidery and the special materials used, the same works will have great differences in technical treatment due to the different uses of hair, so artists are required not only to have the qualities of carefulness, calmness, and patience, but also to master basic techniques such as calligraphy and painting, drawing, etc., and have a high threshold for entry.
【During the same period】The seventeenth generation inheritor of Gan Fa embroidery Tao Yonghong
Lesbian hair has thick and thin, gay (hair) is short, hard and thick, fetal hair it is thin and short, some will have some brittle, some are very tough, for us embroiderers its differentiation is very large, hands heavy and not good, will break, light and not good, light it will be knotted, so the strength to master better than thread embroidery, thread embroidery is can be arbitrarily strengthened, can not need to master this strength, this we must master, we bleach, dyeing, including splicing, all are our one-stop completion, so this means that the threshold of our skills is also relatively high.
【Commentary】Overcoming various difficulties, Tao Yonghong has been sparing no effort to promote the development of Gan Fa embroidery. In 2010, Ganfa embroidery was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Jiangxi Province.
Today, Tao Yonghong has also developed various new products, such as embroidering portraits of babies with fetal hair, embroidering wedding photos with the hair of husband and wife, etc., using hair, a long-preserved material, to inject emotion into the works. Through continuous research and innovation, Tao Yonghong is injecting new vitality into the ancient technique of ganfa embroidery.
Reporting by reporters Hua Shan and Li Yunhan in Nanchang, Jiangxi
Responsible Editor: [Yu Xiao]