The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 404 Brocade and Embroidery

Just how good are the embroidery threads meticulously crafted at Ganluchuan Silk Workshop?

Even the head of the Qi family, a master craftsman who boasted of having been in the business for over forty years and having used all kinds of embroidery threads in the world, was so shocked that he was speechless when he saw the silk embroidery thread that he had paid a lot of money to buy from Ganluchuan.

Purple, red, blue, gold, silver, green, black.

Surprisingly, more than thirty color codes were derived from each of the seven main color schemes.

Purely natural, without a trace of dyeing or the pungent smell of dye.

The depth of color is related to the thickness of the embroidery thread.

The thicker the line, the richer and brighter the color.

However, even the thickest embroidery thread here is several times finer than the embroidery thread from Jiangnan!
The finest is so fine that it can only be seen as a thread-like color with the naked eye.

According to the purchasing agent,
"This kind of mulberry silk embroidery thread is exceptionally strong. When a dozen or so of the thickest threads are intertwined, it is difficult for an average person to break them."

Silk woven from this type of silkworm silk is as light and thin as gauze, and it never fades. The artisans in the weaving workshop boast that clothes made from this silk can last for ten years without wearing out!

ten years!

What kind of resilience is this?
Unheard of!

"But we've never seen Ganluchuan silk in the Kansai market! Is it too expensive? Even if it's a hundred taels for a bolt of plain silk, our embroidery shop would be willing to buy it!"

The head of the Qi family said so.

If things were really as good as the purchasing agent described, she would want to exchange all her banknotes for such silk.

The purchasing agent shook his head helplessly: "The seven-colored wild silkworms are too rare. All the silk extracted from them is used to weave brocade."

"Yun Jin? No wonder!"

No matter how popular Qi family's double-sided embroidery is in the capital, it pales in comparison to Yun Jin.

Why do I say that?

Throughout history, apart from the royal family and aristocratic families, even civil and military officials and wealthy merchants were not qualified to wear Yun brocade.

Yun brocade, to put it bluntly, is a symbol of status.

In terms of weaving techniques, Nanjing brocade is made by using warp and weft threads to weave a complete pattern through superb skills.

The pattern blends seamlessly with the silk background.

Compared to embroidery, which involves secondary processing on silk fabrics, the pattern-making process is much more intricate and complex.

Furthermore, the weaving process of Nanjing brocade requires the use of a large amount of gold thread, silver thread, copper thread, peacock feather thread, etc.

It could be said that he wore gold and silver all over his body.

There's an old saying that every inch of gold is worth its weight in gold!

Embroidery is different.

It belongs to folk handicrafts.

The four major embroidery styles each have their own unique merits.

Double-sided embroidery is one of the most difficult embroidery techniques.

even so.

Brocade, brocade, brocade, brocade always comes first, embroidery comes second.

At this moment, the head of the Qi family faced the light and examined the embroidery thread in his hand, which felt almost weightless.

Gold, silver, and dark green!

These three colors can completely replace gold thread, silver thread, and peacock feather thread.

In the sunlight, the golden embroidery threads shimmered and danced. One could almost see the scattered gold dust within!

The silver is equally impressive, even more so than newly minted silver.

How perfect would it be to use plain silk woven from the finest silver thread as the base for double-sided embroidery?
As for that shade of green.

Having worked with embroidery her whole life, she had no idea that there could be up to thirty shades of green!
After examining the last strand, the head of the Qi family took a deep breath: "Could you help me buy a bolt of Yun brocade from Ganluchuan?"

The purchasing agent shook his head vigorously.

Who wouldn't want to buy it?

But where can I buy it!

Zuo Wenkang had always thought that scarcity would make things valuable, and he wanted to control the production of Yun brocade to less than one hundred bolts.

In practice, even with ten jacquard looms and more than twenty weavers working at the same time, they still couldn't weave thirty bolts of fabric in a year.

One-third of them were given away as advertising merchandise.

Two-thirds of them were pre-ordered by well-known buyers as soon as the pictures were released, and they basically did not circulate in the market.

Even if an ordinary person tried to buy it with money, they couldn't get it!

The harder it is to buy, the more you want to buy it.

The head of the Qi family began spending money like crazy on Yun Jin.

However, the results were minimal!
Half a month later, she finally witnessed the charm of Ganluchuan Yunjin.

That was at the banquet celebrating the 70th birthday of the old lady of the General's Mansion.

The old lady, surrounded by a group of military wives, was wearing a dark purple brocade robe.

The outer robe features a front opening design, with the front opening splitting from the center of the chest to both sides and secured with delicate frog buttons.

Deep purple is its main color. On the deep purple background, there are patterns such as golden auspicious clouds, lifelike black and white cranes, and fairy maidens in green clothes offering peaches of longevity.

Large swaths of gold contrast with the deep purple base, and the resulting gradient colors further highlight the magnificence and delicacy of the brocade.

In addition, the design cleverly incorporates a significant amount of silver tones, enriching the overall color palette...

As the saying goes, the layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

The wives of the generals who came to the birthday banquet felt that the old lady was dressed with an air of nobility, and her whole demeanor was more refined than before.

Only the head of the Qi family looked and looked, his eyes glued to the screen.

She was genuinely very interested in the designer of this design!
How does this person manage to create a picture that looks vibrant yet not noisy, with contrasting colors that don't feel jarring?
The pattern, when woven like this, actually looks more three-dimensional than when embroidered!

She wants to know who designed it!
This person is born for this job!
She wasn't the only one who admired the auspicious patterns on the old lady's body; several other people had inquired about the cloud brocade pattern!
After stealing the spotlight, Old Madam Xiong was in an extremely good mood.

I drank a pot of fruit wine and accidentally spilled some in my mouth.

As a result, the head of the Qi family soon learned that the designer of this auspicious birthday greeting pattern was Zuo Xiucai, the man from General Gan's family, who was considered by many people in Guanzhong to be a gigolo!
If she were to pay a little more, she would be able to discover that Zuo Xiucai's talent was far more than just designing hundreds of brocade patterns.

He even developed large-scale, high-efficiency jacquard machines, silk reeling machines, and weaving machines, among other production tools.

He was even the head of the Ganluchuan Silkworm Room!

In other words, he was involved in the entire industry chain, from mulberry planting and silkworm breeding to brocade weaving workshops!
After analyzing and organizing the information he had gathered, the head of the Qi family was greatly shocked.

So, being a gigolo isn't just about living off a woman; it can be used in this way too?!
Look at other people's families, one person does the work of dozens.

Was I perhaps training my son-in-law in the wrong direction in the past?
This is something to reflect on!
The prevailing perception is that Zuo Wenkang, a man with such talent who lives off women, should be the son-in-law of the Qi family!

How could that butcher woman, who only knows how to kill pigs and people, understand the true value of her man?
What's more, this butcher was mentally unstable.

Head of the Qi family:
Well, the problem is coming!
How can she turn this gigolo into her son-in-law?!

(End of this chapter)