The up-and-coming generation of embroidery, Wang Xiuping |
She is a rural female born in Western-fu, with indomitable
perseverance and superb skills, she made a remarkable achievement -- her
embroidery works are sold to all over the world, the customers called her
"the wonderful art of the ancient Silk road"...... She is Wang Xiuping who
is known as the "China Baoji clever woman.
When she was a girl, she fussed over
her mother, aunts to watch them making pillows and insole while other
children are playing. So her first influences were Stitch by stitch. In
1986, Wang Xiuping graduated from junior middle school. Her many classmates
entered the senior middle school or went out to work, but she remained the
love of embroidery.When she heard that there is a class of fashion design in
county vocational Middle School, she ask her father to sent her go study on
vocation middle school.
In 1988, several people came to her
homeland from Beijing, they run a embroidery workshop, and she was drafted
into.Under the guidance of master tailors, she became the backbone
technician of the factory.
In the 1990s, smart and talented
Wang Xiuping ran a clothing store with the help of her parents.
Her clothing design is novel with fine workmanship, especially in children's
clothing, there are embroidery patterns, and it is very popular with the
local people. In 2004, Qianyang county began to develop embroidery industry
vigorously. The county cultural center set up Meiyuan embroidery art
company, which provided Wang Xiuping with a opportunity for embroidery art.
She gave up the business of the clothing store, willing to change from the
"boss" into a "technical backbone", and embarked on the road to the
pioneering work of embroidery art.
Wang
Xiuping's embroidery works not only absorb the exquisite and euphemism style
of Southern embroidery, but also highlight the thick and simple
characteristics of the culture of the Loess Plateau. In 2011, the vocational
secondary school of Qianyang County opened the national embroidery
profession, and Wang Xiuping was hired by the school as an embroidery
substitute teacher. Wang Xiuping's careful explanation and elaborate
demonstration brought the students and the students who came to the training
into the palace of traditional culture and modern art.
In 2012, she took part in the fourth Shaanxi women's handicraft skill
competition and won the first prize for embroidery. In 2013, in the Baoji
Cultural Tourism Festival, her embroidery works "Eight Running Horses" won
the silver award. The bronze ware, embroidery Ibis and other new products
she developed are favored by the customers. Her products are exported to
Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and other domestic large and medium-sized city,
and some products are also sold to the other countries.
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