When Shen Xiu heard that a new Ruyi embroidery shop had opened in the city, Shen Xiu knew that her handkerchiefs could not be sold at a good price.
Sure enough, Shopkeeper Liu looked at the several square handkerchiefs she brought and said, "This handkerchief is good, but it is not as popular as the embroidered round fans. Madam, please put this handkerchief here first and wait for me to sell it."
I will pay you the money later."
Shen Xiu's heart sank, knowing that she would probably have to postpone the purchase of a house.
But she was a little unwilling, so she asked: "The shopkeeper was very fond of the silk embroidery thread before. Now I happen to have some silk embroidery thread on hand. I wonder if the shopkeeper still wants it?"
Shopkeeper Liu hesitated for a moment and said: "My boss bought a batch of embroidered fans at a high price a few days ago, so we are a little tight on money. Let's wait a little longer!"
The implication is that I don't plan to get this silk embroidery thread.
Shen Xiu was a little disappointed, but it was expected. Since the business of the embroidery shop was not as good as before, it was natural that he would not invest any more money in buying this silk embroidery thread.
Shopkeeper Liu smiled sheepishly: "I'm just a shopkeeper. I can't decide on some things. Don't mind, little lady."
"I know." Shen Xiu nodded understandingly, "But why does your boss pay a high price to buy a batch of embroidered fans? Don't the embroidery ladies in the embroidery shop know how to embroider fans?"
Shopkeeper Liu sighed: "Little lady, I don't know that the round fans sold by Ruyi Embroidery Shop are not ordinary embroidered round fans, but fresh patterns brought back from the south of the Yangtze River. The fabrics are all made of Qingluo. What is it called pick?"
Luo Xiu."
Shen Xiu seemed to have heard the name Tiaoluo embroidery somewhere. When she thought about it carefully, wasn't it just poke yarn embroidery?
"Shopkeeper, can you let me take a look at this Qingluo Tuanfan?"
Shopkeeper Liu quickly brought a light round fan, "This round fan was brought back from Jiangnan by someone specially asked by our boss. Each fan costs five taels of silver."
Shen Xiu took it in her hand and took a look. As she expected, the fan was indeed embroidered with jacquard yarn. However, if the jab yarn embroidery was made of light luo instead of light yarn, it would be called Tiaoluo embroidery.
"Shopkeeper, I can actually embroider this round fan." Shen Xiu put down the round fan and said.
Shopkeeper Liu said: "Madam, don't be joking. This Tiaoluo embroidery is a new style from Jiangnan. Besides, even if the lady knows this Tiaoluo embroidery, we don't have Qingluo in our store! This Qingluo is from Jiangnan."
In short supply.”
Shen Xiudao: "I know this Qingluo is in short supply. But this round fan does not have to be made of Qingluo, it can also be made of plain yarn."
Shopkeeper Liu smiled: "My dear lady, don't talk nonsense. Is it possible to embroider something on this plain yarn? I have never heard of it."
Shen Xiudao: "The plain yarn has larger gaps than Luo Ling, so it is difficult to embroider things on it. But I do have a way to embroider it."
Shopkeeper Liu stroked his beard, "It's not that I don't believe the little lady, it's just that this matter sounds a bit suspenseful!"
Shen Xiu smiled faintly: "Since the shopkeeper doesn't believe it, then I will go back and make this embroidered round fan. I just don't know if the shopkeeper will accept it after I make it?"
Shopkeeper Liu obviously didn't believe it, so he said without even thinking: "As long as you can make it, our embroidery shop will accept it."
This was what Shen Xiu was waiting for, and she smiled slightly: "The shopkeeper must keep his word."
Xiao Shunzi from the silk shop just yawned when he saw a familiar figure entering the shop.
"Sister, I'm here. I wonder what kind of plain satin I want to buy today?" Xiao Shunzi asked diligently. Since Shen Xiu taught him a lesson last time, Xiao Shunzi is very honest now and no longer dares to praise others.
Lower.
Shen Xiu glanced at the several colors of fabrics on the satin shop and said, "I don't plan to buy plain satin today. Do you have any good plain yarn here?"
Su yarn, Xiao Shunzi said hurriedly: "Yes, yes, the store just bought a batch of Suyun yarn. It is light and thin, and it is best for making gauze shirts."
Xiao Shunzi moved a few pieces of Suyun yarn while talking, "This Suyun yarn has three colors in total, one is jade white, the other is aqua, and the third is silver gray."
Shen Xiu's eyes fell on the silver-gray Suyun gauze, "Is this Suyun gauze sold by feet or feet?"
Xiao Shunzi said: "Both feet and feet are fine. One foot of plain cloud gauze costs half a tael of silver. One foot of plain cloud gauze only costs four taels of silver."
Shen Xiudao: "First give me three feet of this silver-grey plain cloud gauze."
As the plain cloud yarn was not enough, Shen Xiu also bought some fan frames and fan handles for making round fans.
Yang looked at the plain yarn she bought and said, "These wealthy people are very particular about it. We can't even use such good plain yarn to make clothes, but they use it to make fans. It's just that such a plain fan is really worth buying."
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Shen Xiudao: "Of course this plain yarn is not used directly to make fans, but also to embroider things on it."
She has looked at it carefully. This Suyun gauze is finer and lighter than the Xiangyun gauze she has seen, and the embroidery effect must be better.
It is said that this yarn embroidery actually belongs to Su embroidery, but when Shen Xiu was learning Hunan embroidery from her master, she participated in some exchange conferences with her and got to know many embroidery masters. These embroidery masters all have one or two unique skills, but they are just struggling to find them.
to a suitable inheritor.
Shen Xiu once helped an embroidery master by chance. Seeing that her skills were good, the master taught her several stitching techniques, one of which was the poke yarn embroidery.
Compared with other stitching methods, the craftsmanship of poke yarn embroidery is somewhat complicated.
The pick-luo embroidery that Shopkeeper Liu mentioned is a relatively simple one, because it is of course much easier to embroider on light luo than on plain yarn.
Shen Xiu went to the kitchen to boil a pot of paste first, and then glued tissue paper on the Suyun gauze to be embroidered.
With this layer of tissue paper, it will be much easier to embroider things on plain yarn.
Two days later, Shen Xiu made a light gauze round fan. The round fan was embroidered with the pattern of camellias and daffodils, and paired with silver-gray plain gauze, it looked both plain and elegant.
Shopkeeper Liu took the fan and looked at it again and again. He really didn't expect that Shen Xiu could embroider this fan and use light gauze.
The gauze is thinner than Qingluo, and Shen Xiu uses silk embroidery thread. Under the sun, the fan feels light and thin, and the camellias and daffodils on it seem to be floating in the silver-gray smoke. It is extremely beautiful.
The boy then compared the light Luo tuanfan with it.
Shopkeeper Liu looked at it again and again excitedly, "The stitching on this is exactly the same as the Tiaoluo embroidery. The little lady is really a real person without showing her face!"
Shen Xiudao: "The shopkeeper just wants to tell you whether to keep this gauze round fan or not!"
"Yes, of course." Shopkeeper Liu said, "It's just that this round fan sells very quickly in June and July, so you have to hurry up these days. Otherwise, when the weather cools down, it won't be easy to sell this round fan."
Shen Xiu muttered: "I also want to embroider more round fans, but the process of embroidery with embroidery is complicated. It's fast to embroider one in two days. The shopkeeper, why don't you help me ask your boss, I intend to embroider this embroidery with yarn."
I want to teach my embroidery skills to the embroiderers in your village, but I don’t know how much taels of silver you are willing to pay.”
In fact, Shen Xiu already had this idea when she was embroidering the round fan. The yarn embroidery process was too complicated, and it would take at least two days to embroider a fan, and the round fan was a seasonal thing, so Shen Xiu had it.
The idea of selling this embroidery technique.
If the owner of the embroidery shop is willing to offer a suitable price, then she can sell the embroidery technique to the other party, and the money problem that troubles her can be solved.