Braid Stitch is mainly utilized in Leishan County with the paper cut sample attaching to the embroidery cloth first before...
Chinese Traditlonal Dress and Decoration
May Stitch belongs to the category of Plain Stitch, but with the difference in texture effects due to different needling...
Split Line Stitch is the best technique among the Miao embroideries, elegant and exquisite, dainty and time consuming The typical...
Flat Silk stitch, is not some special skill of embroidering It gets its name because of the material on which...
Plain Stitch, is the basic technique of all the embroidery skills and no exception in Miao embroidery. Its characteristics are...
Appreciating Miao embroidery is not possible without knowing the techniques and skills utilized. There are more than one hundred sub-tribes-...
The very first Miao embroidery piece my dad bought over 30 years ago was for 2yuan(usd1:2.46)or less than one dollar...
We insist on the opinion that in the past embroidering for Miao like practicing Zen, which assured the top quality...
Why do we preserve folkloric cultural heritage Mr. Feng Jicai points out, the creators of these cultural heritages do not...
Embroideries at Shidong Miao villages start with paper cutting. Miao ladies draw and cut them with certain patterns. Currently the...
Best Miao dresses, for weddings. Brides take hours to put the dress on and not without the help of several...
We once were puzzled to notice that the embroidery costumes play an indispensable role in almost every important event, no...
The exact origin of the Miao Embroidery is extremely difficult to trace today. And the consensus the people have now...
According to Australian anthropologist W. R. Geddes, there are two miserable but rebelling ethnic groups in the world, the ethnic...
All the lands the ethnic Miaos inhabit, we call it Miao country. Guizhou Province, a place amongst ranges and ranges...
Embroidery has a long history in China. As early as in the Zhou Dynasty, the varieties of decorative patterns embroidered...
Embroidery art in dress and adornment also embodies original Chinese philosophy. Likening human body to the universe, the upper part(the...
Stage costumes are an important part of traditional Chinese clothing. They have developed from ordinary clothes and embodied many characteristics...
The cheongsam(known in China as qipao), which enjoyed initial popularity in the 1920s, was first designed by Shanghai people, combining...
China boasts a brilliant history of clothing, some dating it to 4,000 years ago, when Chinese people invented silk. Around...