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Su embroidery: stunning Chinese folk arts

(CNTV)

14:23, November 15, 2012

Su embroidery is a folk art from Suzhou in eastern China that dates back more than 2,000 years. It’s famous for its subtle and refined needlework and typically features natural sceneries, such as flowers, birds, and animals.(CNTV.cn)

Some of China’s most unique cultural traditions are facing extinction. But Chinese banks are offering a helping hand, by stepping up their financial aid to companies in the art world, especially small and medium sized ones.

ICBC, one of China’s biggest banks, has already lent 90 billion yuan, or close to 15 billion US dollars. Other banks are developing new forms of loans to help the cultural sector.

This is no ordinary picture of Queen Elizabeth the Second.This portrait is made of tens of thousands of silk threads on a gauzy piece of silk. The thinnest thread used is just 1/64th the width of a human hair. The work is so delicate, it’s no wonder Buckingham Palace wanted it for its own collection.

And whose skilled hands created this?

Artist Yao Jianping has the softest hands I’ve ever shaken. She is one of the few inheritors of the Su embroidery art form.

Su embroidery is a folk art from Suzhou in eastern China that dates back more than 2,000 years. It’s famous for its subtle and refined needlework and typically features natural sceneries, such as flowers, birds, and animals.

Laura Luo said, "The most difficult part of this Suxiu embroidery is the eye of the bunny. Just this tiny dot here uses over 100 colours and shades and it takes 2 weeks to finish. As for the whole piece, it takes a skilled artist 10 months."

And it’s exactly this lengthy process that has made Suxiu a dying craft.

once dying art could come alive again.

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