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 ...

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Mourning Silk, c. 1805. Embroidery on Silk. Gift of Mrs. Harrison F. Kendrick. The Berkshire County Historical Society is exploring the world of fashion around death and mourning with a new ...