Chinese Handmade Silk Embroidery
China has been famous for its silk and handmade silk embroidery for thousands of years. The embroidery skills have been passed down from generation to generation, and many elaborate embroidery techniques have been developed. Nowadays, many of Chinese folk women are embroidery professionals.
The handmade and machine made embroidery can be easily distinguished:
- Handmade silk embroidery is lifelike with high quality, because it has been created by professionals with skills, passions and cares. The machine made versions look stiff and unnatural.
- Handmade embroidery, which has exquisite and glossy feel, is done with natural silk threads. The thiner the threads are, the finer the embroidery is. Since thin natural silk threads will break when used by sewing machines, machine made embroidery uses thicker or blended threads.