Baby cany, Partial Late Qing Dynasty/South of Guizhou There is an ancient story in Miao communities Long long ago the...
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Understanding and interpretation of the Flowers of Mystery Pattern on Miao Embroidery Symbols and patterns on the Miao embroidery works,...
Rim Locking Stitch Rim Locking Stitch, is one of the most ancient skills with the Miao people and it is mostly...
Winding Stitch Winding Stitch, is a technique which splits the silk line into two and use one to round the other...
Piling Stitch is complicated technique and time consuming too It is not stitched with the silk lines, but with silk cloth....
Crossing Stitch works at Huaxi Miao Villages in Guiyang are famed for the Best Crossing Stitch works Crossing Stitch is...
Double Needle stitch is a special technique in Miao embroidery At first glance it is similar to Braid stitch works...
Warp-width counting stitch is a widely used technique among the Miao embroidery works as almost all the sub-branches of Miao...
Fishnet Stitch Fishnet Stitch or Knit Stitch gets its name for the fishnet effect of the works The works made with...
Wring Stitch Wring Stitch is very similar to Braid Stitch for most of the parts of braiding, paper cut, with braiding...
Wrinkling Stitches share the same procedure in first half with the Braid stitches, e g.making braids. Then the braids are...
Braid Stitch is mainly utilized in Leishan County with the paper cut sample attaching to the embroidery cloth first before...
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...