From runway shows at the pinnacle of world art — the Louvre in France — to China International Fashion Week, Xiuniang Silk ...

Embroidery, a folk art with a long tradition, has an important position in the history of Chinese arts and crafts. During the course of its long development, embroidery has become inseparable from the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. After a young lady learned to ...

A nearly 100-year-old book about China's silk embroidery is being published as a new version with annotations from renowned Chinese scholar Shen Congwen thanks to collaboration between Beijing Yanshan ...

Qi cannot remember a time when she was not surrounded by silk and thread. By age 4, she was sitting at her mother's feet, watching a needle dance through fabric. By age 6, she was doing it herself — ...

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — Superview Handmade Embroidery Arts is back at the Dutchess County Fair, offering hand-sewn images made from silk that are based on drawings and photographs. Yinghui Li, one member of ...

Peng Shiping looks attentively as her 28-year-old daughter Peng Lin is embroidering a fish on silk. The 55-year-old master of Shu embroidery would stop her daughter if she found her stitches were ...

A flock of birds come alive in the skilled hands of Fu Xianghong, a master of Su embroidery known for her flower-and-bird works (GAO ERQIANG / CHINA DAILY) “Only when I take the needle out and touch ...

Suzhou embroidery is one of the most celebrated styles of Chinese silk embroidery, named for the city of Suzhou in China's Jiangsu province. With a history of more than 2,000 years, this form of ...

After the first Silk Festival was held in Kalavasos this spring and warmly welcomed by visitors, the Bee & Embroidery Museum in Kato Drys is creating something new. This Sunday, June 1, it will bring ...