A ceremony after finishing an artwork

Up to now, the Vietnamese history of over 4000 years for buiding and protecting country connected with great things, with magnanimous tradition to make a beauty and semplice Viet Nam. The beauty of our country spread of the whole Viet Nam country. Vietnamese women are labourious, patient as if they can hold all the hardship and sacrified for the happiness of their relatives.Since that, they made for themselves an occupation, a legend as their soul. In the early 1990s, Viet Nam hand embroidery reached to the top of embroidery art, when two craftsmen Mr Vo Van Quan and Mrs Hoang Le Xuan have drawn up a new heading for Vietnamese traditional embroidery by the way of combination graphic features and Vietnamese traditional technique. Especially, Vietnamese traditional themes are replaced the Chinese one which used to occurred in embroidery picture in centuries before.

The creation of this couple artists made a new colour for Vietnamese embroidery picture, and it contributed to make a typical culture, a precious gift for Vietnamese people and meaningful souvenir for international visitors on their occasion to Viet Nam. Embroidery picture of Viet Nam are also taken oversea in order to introduce the beauty of Vietnamese traditional culture. Since that, embroidery becomes special art which contribute to enrich international cultural treasure.

Today, our embroidery picture is more different than it was, many people accepted that Viet Nam embroidery picture is more harmonious and fine in stitch and closed to the painting art. Moreover, its theme is about the homeland and the human life which is very Vietnamese and in Viet Nam only.

When enjoy embroidery picture, the viewer feels as if they get lost into a forest of diversified and copious colour of Vietnamese countrysides. The material of our picture is selected from quitessence and creative artist which is commented by art researcher: “ this embroidery art is not the selecting and arrangement of thread in a logical correlation, but it helps the viewer have the new outlook by the image of musical world. By that way, the viewer can get deep feeling about it.

And Vietnamese embroiderer can pride of their work : “ through the combination of traditional and modern technique, with themes of national character, we will talk about the death, the life, the hopeness, the hidden belief, the lonelyness, the anxious moments…, the basical character of human. Our embroidery picture can verbalize that concrete and abstraction.

The international cultural life will be copious and diversified of typical colour of each nation, with different tradition which made that unique feature. With Vietnamese silk hand embroidery picture, we’re happy to have the honor on behalf of our country to contribute a semplice beauty of art.
And, that’s the colour of embroidery picture.

THE PROCESS OF CREATION AND COMPLETION AN ARTWORK OF SILK HAND EMBROIDERY

EMBROIDERY ART OF PORTRAIT

VALUE OF VIETNAM HAND EMBROIDERY POTRAIT PICTURE 1. An embroidered portrait is created from sharing sensibility of person in flesh - ”Artist Atisan’s Time”- so that each individual hand embroidered portrait work has its spiritual spirit. 2. As an embroidered work is created from Vietnamese traditional art, it wears “Vietnamese Ancient National Spirit”… and it becomes sacred value in each family. 3. The durability of each portrait embroidered “Long Standing Antique ” evidenced by “the Scroll” being embroidered under Ly Tran Dynesties still maintained at BAO QUOC Pagoda – Hue.

4. Embroidered portrait picture is created from several grains of threads so that it is sensible to light.

SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ARTISAN IN EMBROIDERING PORTRAIT PICTURE

Experience of embroidering portrait picture for me to consider that : “the most misery, most disappointed – certainly to be close inside happened before leaving entity, reality”

Each portrait picture is an initiated challenge, it also is a universal truth test: That’s leaving illusion, fantastic, lying got to sound mind. That’s to study recognition good and evil by throwing artificial, tolerance seems to bring back for person a little peace inside to choose torelance really must dive in general.

When a craftswomen embroider a portrait, her mind spends many changes through time:
1. Stranger Face
2. Thinking Of…
3. Embroidery technique and chose the colour of thread.
4. Memories born.
5. Converging.
6. Parting.
7. Nightmare.

EMBROIDERY ART OF LANDSCAPE There are spaces I love to admire, to go for a walk, to stay and even to die therein. Those are natural scenes recalling legends, sweet memory where I do not feel solitary and I could find out a space to talk to myself. A space of “human soul and nature soul” is as the paradise in this world where I and nature can talk together. And space I could keep my confidence which I bring into my pictures filled with legendary bringing the breath of organic life and trying to compete nature.

ART OF EMBROIDERING BOTH-SIDES PICTURE HISRORICAL ORIGIN Because of specification of Vietnam the first page of history is the war constructing and keeping nation having created legend by which men are marriors (going out) and women being spiritual history (relaxation rhythm – confidence in person going out in war), the role of women in rear place creates a comfortable space – relaxation - confidence – waiting. From that base traditional Vietnamese women decorate home with themselves aesthetics – of society: Curtain – towel – bed cover - pillow. Both sided embroidery picture issue from embroidered curtain which Vietnamese women used to create a speech in family, consolating, comfortable space in order to end angles in mind of returness.

It could be said that origin of both – sides embroidery always went along with Vietnamese people history (time not determined).
From such charecteristic signification of embroidered curtain with comfortable space– softness, this day are upgrades into both sided embroidery art.

Befor active living hurry up and unspiritual architecture, both sided embroidery are reaction if women aspiring to have a space of life full of “humanities”…

SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ARTISAN IN EMBROIDERING BOTH SIDES PICTURE

1. Be easily sensible for all coloured things(through test of daily life)
2. Strict technique, colours (most difficult and careful)
3. Have a day in most silent space weekly, creating sensibility for colours in space to be in touch with embroidery artwork.