刺绣是中华民族优秀的传统工艺之一,刺绣与养蚕、缫丝分不开,所以刺绣又称丝绣。中国作为世界上发现与使用蚕丝最早的国家,早在四五千年前中国人就开始了养蚕、缫丝。《诗经》记载:“氓之蚩蚩,抱布贸丝。匪来贸丝,来即我谋。”随着蚕丝的使用,丝织品的产生与发展,刺绣工艺也逐渐兴起,据《尚书》记载,在四千前的章服制度中, Embroidery is one of the best traditional Chinese arts, embroidery and sericulture, reeling is inseparable, so embroidery, also known as silk embroidery. As the earliest country in the world to find and use silk, as early as four or five thousand years ago, the Chinese began to sericulture and reeling. “The Book of Songs” records: “The rogue, holding cloth trade silk. Bandit to trade silk, that I seek. ” With the use of silk, silk production and development, embroidery process also gradually rise, according to “Shang Shu ”Records, in the four thousand before the chapter service system,