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Silk Cloud Brocade ![]() It is one of the traditional silk-knit brocades. It is named after its color as gorgeous as colorful cloud, for it is made of high quality silk and woven with exquisite skill. The silk industry consists of two trades: the pattern brocade trade and the unpatterned brocade trade since the end of the Qing Dynasty. Not until then did the name "cloud brocade" come into use. |
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Leather Silhouette ![]() First it refers to the leather silhouette in Luan County, Hebei Province. Its was accompanied by the song sung in the tone of luoting. It also refers to the shadow play accompanied by the song sung in the tone of Liuqin Opera. Its engraving skill was characterized by roughness and antiquated colour |
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Silk Embroidery
Its characteristics include elegant colors, fine needling, the application of halo dyeing and the vacant lines left between colors. Its needling skills include looping needling, even needling, net embroidering, etc. Later, they created double-faced embroidery which is used to embroider screen, palace fan, handkerchief, scarf and window lattice. Its pattern themes vary from "the celebration of harvest", "wealthy family", "dragon and phoenix symbolic of propitiousness", "well-being through hundreds of years" to "abundance in grains and happiness in life", "richness in fruits", "happy encounter", and "twin lotus flowers". The embroidered pictures have "the Hunting Picture", "the Scroll of Plum and Crane", and "the Scroll of Osmanthus Under the Moon" as their themes. There are many other embroidered products, such as dress and adornments, beddings and ornaments attached to the waist. |
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