Ballet Dancers Chinese Silk Embroidery Paintings

Ballerina is a common subject in portrait oil paintings. The celebrated Chinese oil painting artist Guan Zeju is most well-known for his ballet dancer oil paintings. Some of the silk embroideries below are reproduced from his ballerina oil paintings, embroidered by hands with silk threads...

ballet dancer embroidery art

 

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Suzhou Water Town Silk Embroidery Paintings

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...

water town suzhou silk embroidery work

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Silk Embridery Landscape Painting 'Jiuzhaigou Valley'

Jiuzhaigou, a charming picturesque place, is a masterpiece created by nature. When reproduced into silk embroideries with fine silk threads of numerous colors, the scenery in Jiuzhaigou Valley looks simply as stunning and amazing as photographs...
 

jiuzhaigou valley silk embroidery

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Guan Gong Silk Embroidery Portrait

Guan Yu's look is very easy to recognize. His red complexion and long black beard stand out directly, as does his unique weapon for fighting - a large and heavy blade with a long handle - that is always on his side...

silk embroidery Guan Gong

 

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