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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. English embroidery has a long history as a storytelling medium. During the medieval period, needlework was used to ...

In a quiet corner in the Luonan County Museum, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province was once a piece of silk embroidery, with about 180 bits of damage and 39 missing tassels. Today, the piece is almost ...