The following water town pictures are not oil paintings, nor photographs. They are silk embroidery works, all hand embroidered with fine silk threads on silk. Each of these silk embroideries takes several months to complete. Making such a neat silk embroidery requires superb high embroidery skills and great patience and maybe only the ladies born and living in the water towns are able to fulfill the job...
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