Piling Stitch of Miao
1 min readPiling Stitch is complicated technique and time consuming too It is not stitched with the silk lines, but with silk cloth.
To begin with, the colored silk cloths must be soaked in honey locust liquid and then dried and cut into one-centimeter squares. Then the squares are folded in a slanting way to form triangle. The triangles are stitched from the center to periphery to form the pattern.
This technique makes the works three-dimen-. And it is available in Gejia inhabited area in Qiandongnan prefecture.
Making mini triangle
1/The silk cloth form ini-triangles should be soaked with saponin.
2/Piling Stitch works are made with many such triangles.
