Research On The Cotton Threads Cutting Embroidery And Feasibility Analysis In Modern Fashion Design

The research object in this thesis is The Cotton Threads Cutting Embroidery (CTCE), which is one kind of the traditional folk embroidery. It belongs to Lu Embroidery. It's craft is very unique, which the others have not this kind of characteristics. But the historical records about CTCE are very few at present. Today CTCE is facing the status that would be extinct after developing and prosperous historical period. It is urgent and advisable that we should carry on systematic records, arrangement and theoretical research to protect CTCE. It is necessary that we found the way to develop CTCE in the future. I also hope it can play a certain role to protect it.The method of studying about CTCE is inquiring about historical materials and investigating some handicraftsman in that place. To analyze the feasibility of CTCE in modern fashion design, some sample embroideries was made in practice by myself. The research includes: First, combining the relevant historical materials and embroidery samples to research on CTCE, including the historical development and it's own characteristic; Second, combining the embroidered samples, to analyze the feasibility of CTCE to be used in modern fashion design and how to use.The conclusions are that: (1) the main differences between CTCE and other Embroideries are Na stitch craft and Cutting. Those are also the unique characteristic and essential part of CTCE. It can get two pieces of symmetrical embroidered square and self-same ones only by one embroidering on the materials because of the Cutting craft. (2) The range of using CTCE is determined by its characteristic, which is mainly applied to articles with symmetrical nature. The unification of practicability and aesthetic determines it was used in daily life. (3) The producers and creators of CTCE are common people. It was developed by exchanging and learning between handicraftsman and handed down from age to age in the past years. (4) The existence of CTCE is not merely embroiders but the forms of expression and carriers of the folk-custom and folk psychology, it has reflected people's aesthetic standards and psychological needs. (5) Relationship between modern fashion design and CTCE is that Only if the materials of modern fashion design are suitable for the CTCE, can be CTCE applied to the modern fashion design. (6) The appearance of CTCE is influenced by materials mainly, it is the key that the material factor determines whether it could be applied to the modern fashion design. So long as adjusting the materials and breaking the limitation of traditional cotton fabric as the embroidering ground and cotton threads as the only one, CTCE could be suitable to the modern fashion design.