Embroidery is the craft of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to apply thread or yarn.
刺繡是指使用針線裝飾布料或者其它材質的織物，使其變得更加美麗的工藝。
Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as pearls, beads, quills, and sequins.
刺繡也是用其他材料，如珍珠、珠子、羽毛、亮片。
In modern days, embroidery is usually seen on caps, hats, coats, blankets, dress shirts, denims, dresses, stockings, and golf shirts.
在現代，刺繡通常出現在帽子、外套、毯子、禮服襯衫、牛仔褲、裙子、長襪和高爾夫襯衫上。
Embroidery is available with a wide variety of thread or yarn color.
刺繡會使用各種顏色的線或紗線。
Some of the basic techniques or stiches of the earliest embroidery are chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch and cross stitch.
刺繡工藝早期的針法和基本的技術主要是鏈式縫法、扣眼縫法或毯邊鎖縫針法、平伏針法、緞紋刺繡針法、十字針法。
Those stitches remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.
這些刺繡針法今天仍然是手工刺繡的基本技術。
The art of embroidery has been found worldwide and several early examples have been found.
刺繡藝術已被全世界所熟知，目前已發現了一些早期刺繡品。
Works in China have been dated to the Warring States period.
中國的刺繡作品可以追溯到戰國時期。
The four major regional styles of Chinese embroidery are Suzhou embroidery, Hunan embroidery, Guangdong embroidery and Sichuan embroidery. All of them are nominated as Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage.
中國四大名繡，是指蘇繡、湘繡、粵繡、蜀繡，是中國非物質文化遺產。
Suzhou embroidery is crafted in areas around Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, having a history of 2,000 years.
蘇繡是江蘇省蘇州地區刺繡的總稱，有2000多年的歷史。
It is famous for its beautiful patterns, elegant colors, variety of stitches, and consummate craftsmanship.
蘇州刺繡，素以圖案秀麗，色澤雅致，針法靈活，繡工精緻而著稱。
Its stitching is meticulously skillful, coloration subtle and refined.
蘇州刺繡技巧精細，顏色細膩高雅。
Suzhou artists are able to use more than 40 needlework and a 1,000 different types of threads to make embroidery, typically with nature and environment themes such as flowers, birds, animals and even gardens on a piece of cloth.
蘇州刺繡匠能以40種針法，1000種不同針線，在一塊布料上繡出不同的自然環境主題，如花、鳥、獸、山水園林等。
Hunan embroidery comes from areas around Changsha, Hunan Province.
湘繡來自於湖南長沙地區。
It is distinct for its starkly elegant black, white and gray coloration.
湘繡的特點是以典雅的黑色、白色、灰色等色彩為主。
Its emphasis is on contrasts of light and shade that highlight the pattern texture to give a three-dimensional effect.
它注重光和影對比效果，突出圖案三維立體質感。
Hunan embroidery composition combines void and solid imagery, utilizing empty space in the same way as Chinese ink and wash paintings.
湘繡講究虛實結合，如同中國山水畫構圖一樣，充分利用留白。