Found A Good Shop With Ethnic Embroidery
Do you like to wear stylish and unique embroidery? Near the Red Wall Hotel in Beijing, there is a shop showing some beautiful, handmade embroidery clothes called “La Mu, the Lady Upstairs!”
This shop offers colorful, handmade embroidered clothes, handbags, and other little accessories. Each one of them is beautiful. You can’t find a duplicate item in this shop or anywhere else.
The shop owner Ms. La Mu kindly received me. She gave me a violet shirt with phoenixes and flowers embroidered on it. The embroidery on the shirt is Song Tao embroidery, a special kind of embroidery by Miao ethnic people in southern China’s Yunnan province.
My favorite handbag in the shop was so special! It was covered with “Da Zi” embroidery, a typical Miao embroidery style. La Mu designed it and then made it herself!
There were so many exquisite and beautiful bags and clothes in the shop! They really are the best decorations for such a tiny shop.
Ms. La Mu has another studio in Lijiang of Yunnan Province, where all of the clothes are made. The beauty of Lijiang gives her inspiration to create this her artwork.
Exquisite Peking Opera Masks
Peking Opera masks are popular both at home and abroad. In the Dong Fang Gu Yuan Market close to the Beijing Guang Xi Hotel, I found a good shop named “Long Xiu Ge.” There are many gorgeous embroidery items displayed in that shop.
Ms. Long is the shop owner, and she showed me over a hundred masks she designed herself. She studied Peking Opera over the last few years to make her items. That’s why her embroidery masks are so vivid.
I was attracted by the embroidery paintings that feature vivid figures and animals, especially the one depicting cicadas and sparrows. It was so exquisite!
Another embroidery work I liked featured fishes swimming in the pool. The vivid fish look like they’re going to swim right out of the cloth.
Embroidery work takes patience, even an experienced artisan needs to spend months or years to finish a single piece. Now most of the workers are between the ages of 40 and 70, because most young people don’t like to do such work.
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