Chinese women have long been known for their craft-making skills. In ancient China, a woman's ,virtue and talent was based heavily on whether she could make fine needlework. Nowadays, aChinese woman's ability to mak...
Hobbies? How about weaving Chinese knots,with colorful silk threads,or making shoe pads with some rags? One would think such hobbies would be passe.It is hard to believe such pastimes fit into the lives of modern,busy...
Plain stitch embroidery of Han Dynasty and before is rarely unearthed. Among the large amount of embroidery excavated from Haiqu (海曲 )Han tombs in Rizhao( 日照), Shundong, an embroidery fragment with plain stitc...
MAYBE I should be grateful to my mother. When I was very young, she taught me how to knit socks. Using a kind of white nylon thread and a needle made from a kind of hairpin, a durable sock could be made. Before long I...