The Zhang satin loom stretches 8 meters long and 3.6 meters high. According to Qian, by the late Ming Dynasty, there were over 120 known silk dye colors used in Suzhou's silk garments.

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 ...

To make your silk embroidery projects a success, keep the tension consistent while stitching to not pucker the fabric. Clean your hands regularly to avoid oils getting transferred onto delicate silks.

They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous and influential painters in the history of art. Why did sunflowers obsess him and so many other artists before and since?

With his famous wig and shades, Warhol cultivated a mysterious, enigmatic persona. Now a new exhibition with unprecedented access reveals the man behind the elaborate façade.

NANJING-Chen Yinghua, an embroidery artist, has brought her own "universe", created with needles and silk threads, to the opening ceremony of the Space Day in China on Saturday. Based in Suzhou, a ...

In Suzhou’s renowned embroidery schools, artisans teach Su xiu, a two-thousand‑year-old silk embroidery style. You’ll practise micro stitches, learn colour shading techniques, and produce miniatures ...

For quite some time, Nita Ambani's Indian attires have been making to the headlines and they are the perfect picks for the wedding season. Be it heavy embroidery lehenga’s to simple salwar suit with ...

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