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Original Chinese Handmade Su Embroidery Table Cloth browse these categories for related items... Directory: Gifts & Home Decor:Decorative Art:Contemporary: item # 364283 Please refer to our stock # 54 when inquiring.
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| Embroidery is an excellent traditional technology with a long history in China and well known all over the world, always accompanying silk and its development. The beautiful embroidery works are usually embroidered by the skilled women. In old times, those woman obtained their skills from their mother or grandmother when they are very young, as a technique to make a living. They can embroider everthing you can imagine. It's so incredible for them to embroider various designs with different kinds of threads and materials on fabric using only fine needles. According to history records, Su embroidery was so popular in the Song dynasty that people even named their lanes with names concerned with silk and embroidery. Almost every family raised silkworm and embroidered. Su embroidery reached its peak in Qing dynasty. Suzhou embroidery is now renowned for its "refinement, elegance and beauty". Having a few pieces of handmade Su embroidery at your home will highlight your colorful life. You may frame it and hang it on the wall, or just put it on the table for decoration. | ||
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