Learning how to embroider is easy, and best of all, it’s possible to make a huge variety of artwork with even the simplest stitches. In fact, creating a design to embroider can be more difficult than ...

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 ...

Senior citizens practice Miao embroidery at a workshop in Hejiayan village, Youyang Tujia and Miao autonomous county, Chongqing, in October. HUANG WEI/XINHUA A group of grandmothers sit in front of a ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Five squares each with a design stamped on it and each, except for component a, with net attached, ready to be worked ...

Long before there was ancestry.com, there were samplers. “Genealogical samplers recording births, marriages and deaths became popular around 1790,” explains a placard accompanying the new exhibition ...

The word ‘Phulkari’ literally translates to ‘floral work’. Traditionally executed on hand-spun cotton or khaddar, Phulkari ...

Li Shaoyu works at her workshop in Pengshui Miao and Tujia autonomous county in Chongqing. [Photo provided to China Daily] Pengshui Miao embroidery, known as the "fingertip economy" for Miao folks in ...