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  2. Chinese embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Currently the earliest real sample of silk embroidery discovered in China is from a tomb in Mashan in Hubei province identified with the Zhanguo period (5th–3rd centuries BC). After the opening of Silk Route in the Han dynasty, the silk production and trade flourished. In the 14th century, the Chinese silk embroidery production reached its ...

  3. Kesi (tapestry) - Wikipedia

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    Song dynasty silk tapestry wrapper from the Admonitions Scroll of Gu Kaizhi, with a design of a peony among hydrangeas. Kesi (simplified Chinese: 缂丝; traditional Chinese: 緙絲; pinyin: kèsī; K'o-ssu in Wade-Giles) is a technique in Chinese silk tapestry. It is admired for its lightness and clarity of pattern.

  4. Chinese art by medium and technique - Wikipedia

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    Detail of the central embroidery work of a woman's summer robe, silk gauze, c. 1875–1900, Qing dynasty. On display at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco . Chinese summer court robe ("dragon robe"), c. 1890s, silk gauze couched in gold thread, East-West Center

  5. Suzhou embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Suzhou embroidery, Su embroidery or Su xiu (simplified Chinese: 苏绣; traditional Chinese: 蘇繡) is the embroidery created around the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. It is one of the oldest embroidery techniques in the world and is the most representative type of art in Chinese embroidery .

  6. Goldwork (embroidery) - Wikipedia

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    Chinese goldwork often used red silk threads for couching, adding a warmer tone to the embroidery. [ 9 ] : 22 One of the two important branches of Chinese gold embroidery is the Chao embroidery which was developed in Chaozhou , Guangdong province since the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 AD) and the gold- and silver-coloured embroidery of Ningbo ...

  7. Suzhou Silk Museum - Wikipedia

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    An exterior view of the Suzhou Silk Museum in China. The Suzhou Silk Museum is a museum in Suzhou, China. It documents the history of silk production and Suzhou embroidery from around 2000 BC. Exhibits include old looms with demonstrations, samples of ancient silk patterns, and an explanation of sericulture. Of major note is a room full of live ...

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  9. Xiang embroidery - Wikipedia

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    Xiang embroidery uses pure silk, hard satin, soft satin, transparent gauze and nylon as its materials as well as a variety of colorful silk threads. Traditional Xiang Embroidery uses threads in a very distinctive way—the thread is firstly boiled with Gleditsia and then wiped with bamboo paper , which prevents the thread from pilling and thus ...

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