Aborigines of taiwan –2.Atayal
Hand-embroidered items | Overview | Stitch |
Corset pocket | It is inlaid with round white shell decorations or white shellfish buttons and glass beads. | Suture stitch Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Women's Footwear | It is also called tying foot. It is woven with flax, with thick warp and weft, wider width and longer length. The diagonal diamond pattern is mostly a warp weave pattern that changes the color of the warp, and the pattern is mostly a mountain-shaped diamond pattern. | Suture stitch Edge decoration embroidery technique |
Hunting Head Bag | The bag is decorated with white shellfish buttons, glass beads, and white shell decorations. | Beaded Buttonhole Embroidery Technique Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Sleeve sleeve | Embroidery techniques. | Suture stitch |
Sleeveless top | The tiny copper bells adorned with shell beads on the bottom of the back are one of the dresses. This type of attachment can only be worn by the leader, patriarch or warrior when it is used for ceremonial celebrations. | Beaded Suture stitch Arch Needle Embroidery Technique Back Embroidery Technique Floating embroidery technique Opening Button Hole Embroidery Technique Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Sleeveless short top Women's Long Sleeve Short Top | The whole piece is woven, with red and black wool as the thread, and decorated with buttons, conch shells or round white shell pieces. Except for the boss, the patriarch, or those who possessed military exploits, no one else can wear it. | Beaded Suture stitch Buttonhole Embroidery Technique Arch Needle Embroidery Technique Nail needle thread embroidery technique Applique embroidery technique Chain Embroidery Technique |
Beaded Dress Beaded Skirt | Taiwan specialty. Small cylindrical white shell beads made of clams, horizontally or vertically embossed on the clothes, aligned side by side, about tens of thousands of shell beads (ranging from 30,000 to 60,000) Decorated, generally weighs about two to three kilograms. There are also pearl dresses decorated with shell money and tiny copper bells, which are the most expensive dresses of the Atayal tribe. The function without clothes, but it is often used as currency. "Cutton" is a car canal. It is a mollusk. It has a thick and large shell. The long diameter is about three feet. It is slightly triangular. The left and right shells are equal. The top of the shell is curved. There are five radial ribs on the surface of the shell. , The so-called dragon in the world, the shell edge is jagged, the shell surface is gray or dark brown, and the inner surface is white and shiny. It lives in the tropical sea. It is produced in India and is called one of the seven treasures. | Suture stitch Beading (horizontal or vertical threading method) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Waist ornaments Leg ornaments Foot ornaments | The surface of the belt is decorated with shell beads, animal teeth, and small beads of various colors. | Suture stitch Buttonhole Embroidery Technique Beading (wearing method) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Headband forehead strap | Round shell money as decoration. | Beaded Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Shoulder strap | Use pick, floating woven fabric as the bottom of the cloth, with embroidered decorations. | Cross stitch (grid embroidery) |
Women's turban | Embroidery or sew woolen tassels on both ends of a five or six-foot-long navy blue cotton cloth. There are also headbands made of about twenty red woolen threads, or stringed with beads. | Rolling stitch Back-stitching Cross stitch (grid embroidery) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Men's Necklace | It is decorated with small black beads and shell plates; there are also four shells nailed to a long belt made of rattan, and the two ends are tied with twine. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Neckwear | A necklace made of human teeth, pig teeth, silver glass beads, and brass bells. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Men's shoulder accessories | Take the rattan leather knot as the shoulder strap, which is decorated with more than a dozen square shells, which are obliquely hung on the right shoulder. | Suture stitch Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Men's chest ornament | Twenty-four square white shell pieces are connected by twine thread, similar to forehead ornaments. | Suture stitch Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Women's bust | It is composed of multiple strings of brass bells, black beads, white shell pieces and golden beads. There are also chest ornaments that use twine to string plants, fruits, calamus roots or bee heads. | Suture stitch Beading (wearing method) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Women's shawl | The colors are generally red, black, blue and other colors, and the patterns are changed in combination with rhombus geometric figures, and pick and floating fabrics are also used as shawl fabrics. | Back-stitching Applique embroidery technique Cross stitch (grid embroidery) Arch needle Tibetan thread embroidery technique |
Men's Beaded Waist | The ribbon is made of rattan strips as the skeleton, and the surface is decorated with shell beads, and the lower end is tied with a small flat copper bell, or decorated with small glass beads of various colors. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique Beading (vertical, embellishment, crocheting) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Waist bell | Connect small flat copper bells to a white cotton cloth belt with twine. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Women's armband | Woven into cloth using traditional fabrics and embroidered with beadwork. | Beading (wearing method) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Aborigines of taiwan – 3.Saixia
Hand-embroidered items | Overview | Stitch |
apparel | Saixia does not have special embroidery techniques, and occasionally embroiders simple embroidery on both ends of the woman's headscarf, which may be imitated from the Han people. Most of them are woven items, decorated with white and black stripes or round buttons with four holes, bright plastic beads, sequins, copper bells, shell beads, bones, and bright and bright ornaments. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique Beading (stitching method) |
pectoral | Shell beads, square shell slices, glass beads, wild boar teeth, pottery beads, barley beads, buttons, and plastic beads are used as materials. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Arm accessories | It is made of shell beads and rectangular shell pieces. | Beading (wearing method) Applique embroidery technique Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Tobacco bag | Stitched with animal skins. | Suture stitch |
Aborigines of taiwan – 4.Thao
Hand-embroidered items | Overview | Stitch |
apparel | The patterns used are zigzag, rhombus, and eight-petal flower leaf-shaped geometric decorations. Each thread is left on the back. The left, right and middle seams are woven longitudinally with brown or black straight and horizontal stripes. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Chest pocket Belly pocket | Using traditional fabrics, it is decorated with geometric patterns of zigzag, rhombus, and flower leaf. Various thread ends are left on the back. The left and right sides and the middle seams are woven with brown or black straight stripes longitudinally. | Suture stitch |
Men's vest | The whole piece is covered with interlaced patterns, horizontal strips or diamond patterns, or relatively triangular patterns, and some seashells are sewn on. | Beading (stitching method) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Men's Collared Sleeveless Short Top | There are no straps or buttons, and some have short tassels on the hem or a row of small white and blue beads. | Beading (stitching method) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
leather shoes | Cut the thick leather into an oval shape, perforate the circumference with a leather cord, and tie the two ends of the ankle to the top to fix it. | Link stitch |
hat Forehead | Sew sequins and pearls in a wavy or flower-shaped pattern, or sew more than a dozen square white shells, and sew a red flower and several long feathers on the upper right forehead. The strap is tied to the back of the head. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Women's belt | Embroidered with red lace; both ends are embroidered with ribbon-like patterns and tassels are placed on the edges. | Applique and tassel embroidery technique |
One piece skirt | It has a black background with red edges, a piece of cloth with a red background and green edges, and is decorated with beads, sequin buckles and bells, and there is a tie on the right waist at the upper left and right corners. | Suture stitch Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Aborigines of taiwan – 5. Tsou
Hand-embroidered items | Overview | Stitch |
hat | Two-inch wide red feathers are added to the front edge of the hat, and a variety of shells, gold, silver glass beads or buttons are added, which are gorgeously decorated, and there are straps on the left and right sides. It is the most significant feature of the Tsou nationality. Weared by warriors or bosses. | Arch Needle Embroidery Technique Applique embroidery technique Beading (stitching method) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Leather shawl Leather sleeves Fire pouch | Mostly stitched with deerskin. | Suture stitch Arch Needle Embroidery Technique |
Leather chest | It is tied with fur or linen woven wide band, with a row of shell buckles in the center as a strap. The upper end is sewn with small shells or white buttons, and the lower end is tied with a small leather fire pouch with fire and igniter inside. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Men's corset | Pick and weave small squares. | Back Embroidery Technique Buttonhole Embroidery Technique |
Women's Long Sleeve Short Top | It is mostly made of cotton, silk, or silk. In Alishan, it is mostly made of cotton cloth without straps or buttons, so the clothes are open with a chest pocket inside. | Beaded Suture needle technique Back-stitching Chain Embroidery Technique Arch Needle Embroidery Technique Yamagata embroidery Yamagata Edge Embroidery Technique Arch needle Tibetan thread embroidery technique |
Right-breasted long-sleeved short top | Sewing pasted colored cloth, picking embroidery. | Applique embroidery technique |
Black turban wrapped head | Mainly linear embroidery (back-stitch method) and cross stitch. | Back-stitching Cross stitch (grid embroidery) |
Turban forehead strap | It is decorated with glass beads, mandrels, shell beads, and silver ornaments to form a geometric pattern, and the bottom edge is then decorated with beads or silver pieces. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Men's chest pocket Women's chest pocket | The chest pocket is also called the chest strap. It is a rectangular piece of cloth about one foot to one foot and two inches with a white cotton as the base. Cut a flat opening on the upper edge to make it a pentagonal shape. The corners of both sides are then tied with cloth belts at the back of the waist. | Suture stitch Arch Needle Embroidery Technique Buttonhole Embroidery Technique Back-stitching Applique embroidery technique Yamagata Edge Embroidery Technique Cross stitch (grid embroidery) Cross herringbone embroidery technique |
Women's belt | It is made of slender red and green cotton or silk cloth, embroidered with patterned edges or tassels at both ends, tied around the waist, and can hold money inside. | Yamagata embroidery |
Women's turban | The wrapping method of the turban is very special, so that one end hangs below the back of the head, and the other end is on the top of the head, exposing the embroidery part. | Back-stitching Cross stitch (grid embroidery) |
Women's monolithic dress | The three edges are white and embroidered with embroidered patterns. Sometimes there are realistic patterns such as grass and flowers, or patterns imitated by the Han people. | Back-stitching Straight needle embroidery technique Opening Button Hole Embroidery Technique Twisted loop and lock stitch embroidery technique Cross herringbone embroidery technique |
Ornaments | Forehead straps, earrings, neck accessories, arm accessories, bracelets, rings, chest accessories, etc. | Beading (wearing method) Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
Trim | Shells, glass beads, animal teeth, animal hair, Job's tears, red beans, feathers, flowers, green fruits, peppers, flowers, stones, buttons, bamboo pipes, and metals such as copper, silver, and coins. In the early days, shell beads, coral beads, glass beads, pig teeth, or shell pieces were also used as ear ornaments. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
tape | A cloth belt woven of straw, adorned with shells, beneus, or silver coins, is hung underneath with tobacco pouches, betel nut bags, etc., which are also used as knife belts. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |
hat | It is made of the head shell of mountain Qiang or Deer. | Nail needle thread embroidery technique |