Special Agent Rebirth: The Omnipotent Goddess of Quick Transmigration novel Chapter 518

Chapter 518: Mysterious Young Lady No. 511 (Part 6) - First Update

"Oh? You also have embroidery works?" Lady Liu didn’t mean to look down on Ye Shaohua.

She asked only because Ye Shaohua’s demeanor didn’t seem to fit that of an embroiderer.

It was only after seeing the embroidery carried by the maid behind Ye Shaohua that she realized Ye Shaohua wasn’t just talking aimlessly, but she was even more amazed at heart.

Who would have thought that the small Jingzhou could be home to such talented people.

Although most women of the day were skilled in needlework, becoming an embroiderer wasn’t something one could achieve with just any ordinary skill.

"Miss, could you show us your embroidery work?" Lady Liu asked warmly, looking at Ye Shaohua.

Ye Shaohua glanced at Zu Xiao.

Zu Xiao immediately understood her meaning and, stepping past the other embroiderers, went to Lady Liu’s side and helped Liu’s maid unfurl the Suzhou embroidery.

The brocade in Lady Liu’s hands was a ’Hundred Butterflies Fluttering Through Flowers,’ laboriously embroidered by Ye Qingqing, and also her most adept work.

The colors were vivid, the brocade lustrous and delicate. She used the traditional stitching techniques customary in Jiangling, making the structure very rigorous. At first glance, the butterflies and flowers appeared vividly lifelike, embodying a very realistic style.

Even the embroiderers who had been dubious of Ye Qingqing’s reputation couldn’t deny its merit upon seeing her work.

Just when they thought that such embroidery was a rare find, Zu Xiao unfurled Ye Shaohua’s work, and they realized what could truly be called divine craftsmanship, what could truly be called stunning.

Ye Shaohua’s embroidery featured gradient-colored peonies and phoenix-tail patterns. The peony, the main flower, was delicately shaded from light to dark, with the color transitions of the petals from inside to out distinctly pronounced. The lighter-colored heart of the flower even utilized flat embroidery, and no less than twenty stitch techniques were used from the outline to the coloring of a single flower.

Her use of color, in particular, had been sensitive to colors ever since she came to this world.

As a result, the color gradations that most embroiderers wouldn’t pay attention to were carefully outlined by her, with a single petal using nine shades from light to dark.

Especially a drop of crystal-clear dew on the petal.

Under the contouring from white to lifelike shades, the dewdrop appeared to tremble precariously on the fabric, almost making one want to reach out and touch it to see whether it was a real droplet that had fallen by accident or one that had been embroidered on.

Compared to the monochromatic flowers in Ye Qingqing’s ’Hundred Butterflies Fluttering Through Flowers,’ her subtly shaded peonies seemed almost capable of attracting real butterflies and were quite unique.

The embroiderers only then came to a realization; so color could be used like this, and a flower could be fully captured in an embroidery?

Even more ingenious was the phoenix tail brushed by the peony petals, for which Ye Shaohua used Suzhou embroidery.

Described as the phoenix tail, it was actually a few feathers encircling the peony blossoms, not like ordinary feathers. Ye Shaohua’s embroidery featured roots of a fuzzy down, each length evoking breath, shaded from light to dark. She utilized a wooden comb for this layered embroidery, giving the impression that one could reach out and touch the soft, light feathers as if they were those of a phoenix that had accidentally dropped them while flying over a blooming garden.

The peony was too regal, too resplendent.

Ordinary people who wore clothing emblazoned with peony patterns might not be able to pull it off, but these refined feathers dispersed the intensity of that vibrance.

It further emphasized the Suzhou embroidery’s principle of ’harmonious colors’.

Zu Xiao was also seeing Ye Shaohua’s embroidery for the first time, and she even couldn’t resist touching the dewdrop with her hand.

Once confirmed it was embroidered on, she stood there dazed.