Embroidered Cushions: 300 Hours Per Pillow

Close-up front view of a cushion: the base fabric is low-chroma linen, on which patterns are hand-embroidered with silk threads, metallic threads, and tiny beads, using various stitches—satin stitch, French knot, couching—resulting in distinct raised textures and varying lusters on the surface. The patterns are asymmetrical branches, leaves, or birds, with the composition extending to the edges and cut off, like a detail of a painting. The back is plain linen of the same type, with a hidden snap closure instead of a zipper. The four sides have no piping or tassels, forming crisp right angles. Oblique light makes the metallic threads and beads sparkle. Avoid: using printed imitation embroidery fabric, making patterns into symmetrical regular designs, adding piping and tassels, photographing a distant view of an entire sofa set.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一顆抱枕的正面近景:底布是低彩度的亞麻,上面以絲線、金屬線與細小的珠片手工繡出圖案,針法有多種——平針、結粒繡、盤金,因此表面有明顯的高低層次與不同的光澤。圖案是不對稱的枝葉或鳥,構圖延伸到邊緣被裁斷,像一幅畫的局部。背面是素色的同款亞麻,開口是隱藏的暗釦而非拉鍊。四邊沒有滾邊與流蘇,是俐落的直角。斜光讓金屬線與珠片發亮。避免:使用印刷的仿刺繡布、圖案做成對稱的規則花樣、加入滾邊與流蘇、拍成整組沙發的遠景。