The 12th China Embroidery Culture and Art Festival kicked off Thursday in the New and Hi-tech Zone of Suzhou.
The opening ceremony saw the launch of a strategic plan for the revival of the Suzhou Embroidery in a bid to explore new ways of inheriting, protecting and developing Suzhou Embroidery Art through the national-level project.
The ceremony also saw the start of the stitching on the embroidery gift for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.
The embroidery gift will be stitched by 14 embroidery masters and their apprentices before making debut during this year’s National Day holiday.
The embroidery culture and art festival will present a feast of embroidery culture shared by China and foreign countries through high-end dialogues among industry masters, experts and designers, and embroidery popularization and experience activities.
Suzhou embroidery, with its origin dating back to 2,000 years ago, is crafted in areas around Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. It is famous for its beautiful patterns, elegant colors, variety of stitches, and consummate craftsmanship. Its stitching is meticulously skillful, coloration subtle and refined. Suzhou artists are able to use more than 40 needlework and a 1,000 different types of threads to make embroidery, typically with nature and environment themes such as flowers, birds, animals and even gardens on a piece of cloth.
(Source:ourjiangsu.com)
