在马王堆绣品出土之前,湘绣有据可考的历史最远只能追溯到明代,1972年的考古发现,无疑把它的历史向前推了一大步。为了更好表现图案的浓淡阴阳、色阶渐变,李厚芑将一股绣线劈作多股,每股粗细仅相当于头发丝的十分之一。长沙大火几乎摧毁了湘绣的根基,许多老字号湘绣作坊被付之一炬,绣工罹难者十有七八。直到解放前夕,湘绣仍没有从那场灾难中恢复过来。 Before the unearthed Mawangdui Embroidery, the history of Hunan Embroidery is as far back as the Ming Dynasty. The discovery of the archeology in 1972 undoubtedly pushed its history a big step forward. In order to better show the pattern of shades of yin and yang, gradation gradation, Li Houqian will be an embroidery thread split for multiple stocks, each share is only one-tenth of the thickness of the hair. Changsha fire almost destroyed the foundation of Hunan embroidery, many old embroidered embroidery workshop was torched, embroidery victims were seven or eight. Until the eve of liberation, embroidery still did not recover from that disaster.