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TAIZHOU, China, July 18, 2022 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Foreign teachers and students from 8 countries, including the United States and

New Zealand, came to the Taizhou Embroidery Life Art Museum recently, embarking

on a journey of experiencing Taizhou embroidery culture, according to Taizhou

Embroidery Museum.

Malik, a foreign teacher from Pakistan, was much impressed. "I saw the

production process of silk before, and this time I see how silk becomes a work

of art in Taizhou. It is so beautiful! These works really impress me. What's

more, they are both artistic and practical. I really like them!" Malik said.

The Taizhou Embroidery Life Arts Museum was launched by Lin Xia, the

third-generation inheritor of Taizhou embroidery. The Museum is open to the

public for free and serves to showcase the development of Taizhou embroidery

and promote Taizhou folk embroidery culture. As a master of Chinese arts and

crafts, Lin combines traditional embroidery skills with modern fashion to form

a new genre with unique regional embroidery characteristics of Taizhou. She

founded her own cultural brand, and built a cultural and creative industrial

chain with traditional embroidery skills as the mainstay.

Taizhou, located in the southeast coast of China, Zhejiang Province, has a long

history of embroidery culture among its rich and unique cultural deposits.

Judging by the unearthed fragments of silk fabric from the ancient times,

Taizhou embroidery has a history of more than 1,000 years. During the late Qing

Dynasty, the ancient Taizhou embroidery was perfectly combined with foreign

carving embroidery, forming the modern Taizhou embroidery with regional

characteristics.

As a folk art with both Western aesthetics and Chinese traditional skills,

modern Taizhou embroidery has developed into one of the most distinctive

regional embroidery types with nearly 300 ways of stitches in China after three

generations of inheritance, and has been listed in the intangible cultural

heritage list of Zhejiang Province and become the signature of Jiaojiang

District intangible cultural heritage.

Under the guidance of the intangible culture heritage departments in Taizhou

City and Jiaojiang District, local enterprises have explored and sorted out the

historical evolution, regional culture, social value and inheritance pedigree

of Taizhou embroidery. The cultural, technical and artistic elements of Taizhou

embroidery are extracted and transformed through creative design. The local

firms have taken the unique local culture as inheritance assets and the

intangible heritage brand of embroidery as carrier to integrate intangible

skills into modern life. Taizhou embroidery is now on a road to the perfection

of craftsmanship, perception and practicality.

Source: Taizhou Embroidery Museum, Zhejiang Province

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