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Craftsmanship and Memories About Embroidery

  1. 誠美繡莊-許德增師傅
  2. 光彩繡莊-林玉泉師傅
  3. 陳德聚堂

During the time visiting the small alleys in Tainan, the most impressive thing is that withthe culture of the clan temples, where “a small temple is always at three steps away and a big temple at five steps away”, you can also find many traditional industries relevant to religious beliefs and life in the more populated areas, such as the traditional embroidery that wass used to operate in Tainan for a long time in history and even sold all over the country and abroad. The embroidery products of embroidery shops in Tainan are famous, but such exquisite skills are gradually withering away.



When we were children, we spent a lot of time listening to the stories our parents told us about the lives of their grandparents, which was easy to see that Tainan was the most important historical and cultural center in early days of Taiwan. As early as the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, the embroidery industry in Tainan flourished, with large and small embroidery shops touting for business at street corners and lanes everywhere. Apart from embroidered items for festive ceremonies and temple rituals such as rectangular embroidered cloth with eight celestial beings embroidered on it, table skirts, flags and Buddhist vestments, etc. the embroiderers at that time also crafted many daily necessities such as bibs for children and embroidered shoes for women, etc. During the Japanese ruling period, embroidery shops were also an important industry in Tainan, not only for women who lived by embroidery, but also for children who went to nearby embroidery shops to supplement their family income or to pass the time in their spare time,



With the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the rapid changes of the times, people no longer cared about the ornate embroidery on daily necessities and instead bought cheap ready-made clothes, which reduced the demand for embroidery products; the original embroiderers gradually fell silent and the traditional embroidery industry became a sunset industry; later on, machinery replaced manpower and electric embroidery gradually emerged because the traditional hand embroidery was time-consuming and labor-intensive, which discourages people to engage in the traditional embroidery industry, pushing many embroidery shops either close down or relocate to mainland China; nowadays, only few old embroidery shops are left with embroiderers actually working in their shops.



After the embroidery shops moved to mainland China, the poor and cheap embroidery products have impacted the whole market environment, and the traditional embroidery industry is facing the risk of losing its exquisite embroidery skills due to various factors such as the aging of the population, the shortage of talents, and the lack of young people willing to pass on the skills, etc. The exquisite embroidery skills of such traditional industry, of which Tainan was proud of, are at risk of being lost. Master LIN, YU-CHUAN of FuCheng Kuang-Tsai Embroidery Shop once lamented, “the biggest dilemma facing the traditional embroidery industry now is that it can’t hire a master, and very few apprentices want to come and learn the art, so I’m afraid this exquisite craft will be lost.” Master HSU, TE-TSENG of Chengmei Embroidery Shop also said, “although a few remaining embroidery shops nowadays still take orders, the masters of these shops are too old, who fail to find young people to take over their businesses.”



Tainan’s embroidery shops are unique, and even the lively religious event – “Welcoming Mazu” - has developed a few popular sayings, such as “Tainan welcomes Mazu, with every flags possible”, and there were many clan temples holding grand events to welcome the gods, when most of the flags were produced by embroiderers in Tainan, so it’s easy to imagine how prosperous the embroidery industry was back then; nowadays, apart from the needs of temple rituals, the traditional embroidery techniques have gradually disappeared from people’s daily lives and been forgotten. In addition to passing on this traditional skill, we also hope that through the Program “Extending the Lost Needle and Memory”, students can join hands to promote embroidery skills (memory) and pass on Tainan’s profound embroidery culture and historical memory.


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