Shanxi’s folk embroidery is known for its unique art, simple patterns, colors, compositions, and diverse, delicate needlework. The embroidery is mainly done by rural women and is most represented by ...

Asha Patil initiated Banjara Kasuti to preserve Lambani embroidery, a vibrant art form of the Lambani community in Karnataka. Sandur Lambani embroidery, with a GI tag, holds cultural importance. The ...

Hungarian design student Zsanett Szirmay has transferred folk embroidery patterns onto strips for a punched card music box, which plays the traditional motifs as sounds (+ slideshow). For her ...

Wafa Ghnaim’s mother was forced into exile from her home in Safad in historic Palestine at the age of three. To keep the ties with her home region alive, she taught herself the art of tatreez, a form ...

Learning how to embroider is easy, and best of all, it’s possible to make a huge variety of artwork with even the simplest stitches. In fact, creating a design to embroider can be more difficult than ...

Arists are masters of showing something old in a new way, like turning embroidery into music. Now, delicate needlework has brought colored thread to life in a laboriously stitched animated short.

A craft passed down for thousands of years, the horsetail embroidery of China's Shui people is deemed a local intangible cultural heritage From auspicious horse-themed phrases and couplets to whether ...