Ingenious Chinese Knots
Chinese knots are a distinctive and traditional Chinese folk handicraft. Their main characteristic is that each knot it woven from one piece of thread and named according to its shape. Good wishes and praise may be expressed through combinations of knots that culminate in auspiciously designed ornaments, often Impressively elaborate, that have rich connotations, such ...
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Chinese Silk Embroidery
Su embroidery is one of the most famous Chinese embroideries. It is the general name for the embroidered products in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. There emerged many embroidery workshops and embroidery markets in the Song Dynasty. Up to Ming and Qing Dynasties, its embroidery flourished for a time. Su embroidery is famous for its elaborateness
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Chinese 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
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Chinese handicraft - Folk Woodblock Picture
It is a kind of picture enjoying popularity among the people with a large variety. A few of them are singled out for appreciation, but most are used for different worldly life and protocols, such as the portrait of the Gate God, the portrait of gods, illustration, pictures for packaging and decorating, window flowers, lamp pictures, kites, paper cards,
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Chinese Porcelain
Porcelain has been in use for over 4000 years in China. It is made from special white clay and fired at a temperature of 1280 degrees C. There are a couple different ways in which these items are decorated. The most common today is molded, decorated and glazed. Others are molding, enameled, than re-fired. The third type is under glaze ...
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Chinese crafts - Chinese Jade, Jadeite, and New Jade
Jades are extremely hard stones (6.5 to 7.0). They were shaped and carved using ropes and bamboo with grains of sand. The piece was coated with sand which was rubbed back and forth with the rope or bamboo to slowly wear away the stone. A single piece could take months to produce.
Today, modern diamond
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