Yangjing Woolen embroidery originated from Europe and was introduced into Shanghai at the beginning of the 20th century. Its embroidery style had 20,000 processors in Pudong district, Shanghai in the ...
SHANGHAI — From its ecclesiastical beginnings as a 19th-century craft taught by nuns at Shanghai’s Xujiahui Catholic Church, woolen needlepoint embroidery in China has come on a long, turbulent ...
Embroidery and needlework used to be a required skill for every Chinese woman living in olden times. A newly married bride was usually judged by her in-laws according to the handicrafts she made and ...