Embroidery

Embroidery is a Myanmar Traditional artistic work. It is the art of sewing silver and gold threads on costumes, garments and dresses of members of royal palace of many decades ago.

These are modern embroideries, which are a combination of articles and artist work according to traditional handicraft figures. The embroidery paintings are being implemented by handicraft to bring out the shape of figures including ideas of light and dark and a mixture of colours and views of art.

Pictures depicting traditional oil lamp dance, a romantic dance by a male and a female dancer, or a duet dance, single dance and a damsel carrying a bowl for offering of food to monks and other pictures of traditional cultural styles drawn on the fabrics are sewn with silver and gold threads on the painting which becomes a beautiful embroidery.
Moreover, pictures of pagodas and beautiful national scenes of Myanmar are also sewn on it. Painting plays a vital role from the beginning to the end of an embroidery work. It is the painting that brings out the figures in the embroidery to be distinct.

In the process of an embroidery painting, the artist first draws the sketches on a piece of silk, satin or velvet. The artist then uses cotton to bring out the figures to be distinct and also strings beads and spangles with coloured threads and decorates the figures. Then embellishes the faces of the figures by his artistic work. Painting is one of the ten traditional arts and crafts. Embroidery painting is a combination of art and handicraft work. The embroidery is attractive to viewers to preserve Myanmar traditional cultural heritage.