Embroidery Series of Zhu Da’s Paintings Chicken

The embroiderer practiced innovation and flexible combination of techniques in this series of free-hand embroidery pieces, which are based on the paintings of the famous Ming-and-Qing painter Zhu Da (1626-ca. 1705). As a painter with strong personality who excelled especially in flower and bird painting, in which the painter “never pursued completeness but always end up with completeness based on his unrestrained brushwork and flooding emotions”.

By use of full-and-broken-line stitches (xushi zhen, 虚实针), seeding stitches (dian zhen, 点针), etc., the artisan vividly illustrated a lovely chicken which is walking just like a toddler.