History of embroidery and its development

Embroidery as one of the types of decorative art is found on many elements of clothing, in the components of the design of the house. This is not surprising, because a man was always peculiar to decorate himself, his clothes and his home.

The history of embroidery begins even in the ancient world, although the question of in which country it appeared for the first time still causes controversy among scientists-archeologists. According to some, embroidered patterns first appeared in ancient Asia, according to others - in ancient Greece.

In favor of the fact that richly embroidered clothes and various household items appeared in Asia, the records of ancient historians about the wars of Alexander the Great with the Persians testify. It was they who had the young conqueror first saw the embroidered tents and ordered his masters to make him the same. In ancient times, embroidery showed the social status of the family. The richer and more vivid the pattern, the more expensive the materials of clothing and threads for embroidery, the higher the position of a person in society. As the patterns used mainly stylized vegetable and animal ornaments or religious symbols, adopted from a particular people.

The history of embroidery developed and continues to develop in our days. For hundreds of years of its existence, depending on peoples, beliefs, fashion for depicting threads on a fabric or other materials, many seams and types of embroidery have arisen . The pattern can be embroidered in one style, and can be created with the help of various textured threads and various embroidery techniques, depending on the skills and artistic taste of the master. This combination gives an embroidery of originality and charm.

The most popular embroidery is smooth. It can also be different: embroidering a pattern with one color often goes as a complement to embroidery in the Richelieu technique, usually performed in white and called white smoothness. The smooth surface with the transitions of flowers is very beautiful and quite difficult to perform. Counting - the number of stitches is counted, and the stitch length, as a rule, is equal to the distance between the parallel sides of the pattern. The counting surface is usually used for embroidering stylized ornaments, which have small elements in their motif.

The history of embroidery with smoothing originates somewhere in the III century BC. The smooth surface was considered an embroidery for decorating the nobility and their houses, as well as for temple paintings with religious images. For this, silk threads, gold and silver were used. The rest of the population was more attracted to ornamental patterns and simpler techniques, such as cross-stitch, semi-cross stitch, stitch seam, tambour seam , etc. The history of embroidery knows many interesting facts in its development. For example, the Slavic peoples in Russia had a belief: if you start embroidery with the sunrise and finish before sunset, then the thing with such a pattern became a talisman or amulet for the person to whom it was intended.

In the last century, embroidery was embroidered with ribbons or braid. It is not very difficult to perform, but it requires certain skills and skills, accuracy and patience from the master. But to think that this is a new round in the development of embroidery techniques, is mistaken. The history of embroidery with ribbons begins in the 14th century in France. The ribbons were decorated with hats and dresses of noble ladies, then such patterns became so firmly in fashion that several hundred meters of silk or satin ribbons were spent on the embroidery of one dress.

The history of embroidery does not stand still. Talented needlewomen add rhinestones, beads, beads, pendants and other elements to the patterns, which help to add a product of uniqueness and elegance, and women of fashion are forced to look after them.