History of Silk Embroidery

About Silk Embroidery Art > History

The art of silk embroidery has been practiced in
China for more than 2000 years, and has more
styles and new techniques applied successfully in
the past decades.

Since hundreds of years ago when they were first
made available to western countries along the
ancient Chinese Silk Road, those magnificent
Chinese silk embroidery art pieces have fascinated
the world by their beauty, fine workmanship, good
design and exquisite material, and are collected
among the most beautiful treasures of the
decorative arts since then.

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The
Three
Warriors

19th
Century

China

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Started from the dragon worship by
having tattoos of dragon on the
worshipper's skin in ancient China,
silk embroidery soon replaced the
tattoos and played a very important
role in worship culture and civilization
in the history.

And the royal families have been the
only social group who could have the
exquisite embroidered silk fabric in
the past.

Four Season Scenes
19th Century, China