Colcha is a type of embroidered textile in which a long stitch is tacked down with a series of angled cross stitches on a piece of woven fabric. “That makes it specifically colcha, as opposed to any ...

Embroidery, an enthralling craftsmanship appreciated for many centuries, requires the decoration of fabric with complex designs meticulously stitched with a needle and thread. In the past, all ...

Like many women of the Tu ethnic group, Ma Baoqin started learning Panxiu, a type of embroidery with Tu characteristics, when she was about 10 years old. Ma, 76, and her peers in Huzhu Tu autonomous ...

The stereotypical image of obedient housewives doing needlework is rooted in the reality of many historical women. Embroidery became almost synonymous with a domestic and delicate depiction of ...