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 ...

In the 1730s, Parsis saw Chinese workers create embroidery on silk. A Parsi trader once requested Chinese artisans to add a border, and later a pallav, to their embroidery, marking the origin of ...

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 ...