Zhangjiajie Miao Embroidery
 2016-12-20 16:29:46   Zhangjiajie Tourism Information Website  

ZJJ Miao embroidery is made by five color lines. Its graphics are mainly from some basic rules of geometry, few designed by flowers and plants. The basic pattern of geometric, such as prismatic, spiral, cross, zigzag, etc. Miao embroidery is not used with papers, without drawing sketch. All are made by their natural understanding, proficient skills and special memory. With rich imagination, the entire layout, a separate local graphics clever combination, form a full embroidery, achieving the harmonious perfect situation, the generous beauty.

Miao thousands of years, culture, civilization, inheritance and development are coming together in embroidered clothes. It involves a nation’s history, culture, craftsmanship, aesthetics, textile, planting, symbols, religious, social, economic,  and national multidisciplinary research. It has many aspects of value. Miao embroidery is listed as the first “intangible cultural heritage protection project” in our country.

Translated by Sophia