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Stitching Lives: Embroiderers and the Making of Contemporary Suzhou Embroidery: About

Suzhou embroidery (Su Xiu) is one of China’s most celebrated forms of intangible cultural heritage. Often presented through its exceptional techniques, aesthetics, and finished works, it is also a living practice continually shaped by the people who make it. Stitching Lives shifts attention from embroidery as a fixed cultural artifact to the practitioners whose skills, […]

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