Kumbum Monastery embroidery [Qinghai Xining specialty]

What is Kumbum Monastery embroidery? Authentic Qinghai Xining specialty: Kumbum Monastery embroidery? This article is a special article about the Kumbum Monastery embroidery, a specialty of Xining in Qinghai Province. It was reviewed and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Website, which collected relevant information about Kumbum Monastery embroidery. The full text takes about 3 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Kumbum Monastery embroidery and the history of Kumbum Monastery embroidery? The making method of Kumbum Monastery embroidery

Basic Introduction of Kumbum Monastery Stacked Embroidery

Stacked Embroidery is a kind of large and small Buddha statues pasted and stacked on the cloth curtain (silk) and flower patterns dotted around. It is a unique local ethnic handicraft of Kumbum Monastery. The theme of embroidery is mainly to show various activities of the Buddha. Characters, landscapes, flowers, birds and animals are made according to the story of the Buddhist scriptures, and are matched with different colors of scenery. It has vivid shapes, strong three-dimensional sense, and many wonderful works. Therefore, Kumbum Monastery regards the embroidery Buddha as a precious cultural relic and preserves it. Duixiu is often hung in the scripture hall, providing beautiful artistic enjoyment to Chinese and foreign tourists who come here for fame

How did the history of Kumbum Monastery embroidery come from

The "Big Buddha" in Kumbum Monastery is shown at the two Dharma meetings in April and June of the lunar calendar every year, which is also a large Buddha statue embroidered by art monks on the huge brocade mantle. The Buddha is over ten zhang long and six or seven zhang wide, stretching from the mountaintop to the mountainside, with a magnificent momentum, providing a place for tens of thousands of tourists and believers to pay their respects and worship. Stacked embroidery is a unique traditional art of Kumbum Monastery and a wonderful work of art monks

The making method of Kumbum Monastery embroidery is to cut and paste various patterns of cotton, silk and satin into a complete picture, and then embroider them with colored threads. The process includes pattern design, cutting, stacking, embroidery, and coloring of individual pattern parts. Mainly based on stacking stickers, supplemented by embroidery. Pile embroidery is divided into two types: flat cut pile embroidery and three-dimensional pile embroidery. Flat cut embroidery is the process of stacking various colored fabric patterns that have been cut and pasted onto a designed white fabric, and then embroidering the edges with colored thread. And it is about placing cotton or wool inside the cut image to make the shape convex, then sticking and embroidering it on a symmetrical cloth curtain, and then connecting the embroidered images of different shapes with embroidery satin to form a huge picture scroll, forming a complete set of images, hanging on the hall. The embroidered images are full of vertical and realistic feelings, which is called three-dimensional embroidery