Large carpets, particularly large wool carpets, were not used in China until comparatively recent times. Rugs to cover the "Kang" or fire heated brick bed platform typical in North China were not uncommon at least as early Ming times. These ...
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The Li population comes to 1,110,900. Most of the Lis now live in Dongfang, Baisha, Lingshui, Changjiang Li Autonomous Counties, and Ledong, Qiongzhong, and Baoting Li-Miao Autonomous Counties in the middle south of Hainan Province. The ...
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It is a brocade of the Tujia Nationality. The General History of the Ming Dynasty calls it "striped cloth." In the Song Dynasty they called it "brook cloth" and "brook-cave facing." Tujia brocade is made by waist weaver. It takes yarn ...
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Zhuang brocade has a long history. Way back in the Han Dynasty, ancient Zhuang ethnic people wove what was known as "banbu" or "streaky cloth", the predecessor of brocade. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, archeologists ...
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Needlework is included in Chinese folk arts. In the past, it referred to women's needlework-related jobs like spinning, weaving, sewing, embroidering, applique work, patching, pattern cutting, starching, dyeing, and making caps, shoes etc. ...
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Kesi is a special type of weaving peculiar to China.It is different from embroidery but rather similar to the making of tapestry. It is done on a wooden handloom with raw silk as the warp and boiled-off silk as the weft. The weft ...
Clothes of Chinese ethnic minorities are flowery and colorful, extremely exquisite, and highly characteristic. They constitute an important part of the rich history and culture of the nationalities. Every aspect of their ...
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The Qiang people are an ethnic group of China. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, with a population of approximately 200,000, living mainly in northwestern part of Sichuan ...
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The Maonan people are brave, enterprising, and have no fear of hardships. They send their children to school no matter how hard their life is, so they can have higher education and there are a large number of intellectuals among them. ...
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The Maonan minority group is located in the mountainous areas of Guanxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is a traditional agricultural group. Every family used to have a weaving machine and plant blue grass for to dye and make coarse clothes ...
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One of the largest minority groups in China lives deep in the remote, mountainous region on the borders of Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan provinces. It is the "Tujia" (literally "Soil Family") ethnic minority. Among well known Tujia ...
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With a long history, the needlecraft, or nvgong in Chinese, a synonym of nvgong an nvgong, covers various skills such as braiding, weaving, clasping, sewing, embroidering, scissoring, tweaking, pasting etc. For thousands of years, girls ...
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Nashishi, also called Gold-Wefted Brocade, is a kind of silk embroidery woven with flat or round gold threads and it is regarded a typical representative of the silk weaving craft of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). Brocade ...
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Kesi,or Cut Silk,refers to silk tapestry with cut designs, and is a unique Chinese traditional silk weaving technique. Archaeological evidence indicates that silk tapestries with cut designs were produced in China at least as early as the ...
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The knot button is a distinctive feature of traditional Chinese apparel. Even today, it is still highly visible on garments like the Qipao, or cheongsam. Though normally associated with tradition, the knot buttons are currently enjoying ...
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