Chinese style of hand embroidery, pottery and porcelain

Chinese artisans adopt many different kinds of hand embroidery and countless different stitches which produce different effects in texture, tone, shading, buck and perspective. Chinese embroidery is concentrated in four centers – Suzhou, Guangdong, Hunan and Sichuan.

Suzhou embroidery is famous for cat and gold fish products; Hunan embroidery is well known for its lions and tigers; Sichuan embroidery appreciates a high reputation for lotuses and carps, cocks and cockscomb; and Guangdong is famous for Hundred Birds Paying Respects to Phoenix, displaying enthusiastic scene with various kinds of birds flying around a phoenix with the sun, pines, bamboos, peony and red plum blossoms in the background.

Pottery and porcelain are one of ancient China’s inventions. Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province is known as China’s porcelain capital, with its products famed as “white as jade, bright as mirror, thin as paper and making music when taped.” Yixing is praised as China’s pottery capital, and its red ware, made with local purple clay, have close texture, simple and unsophisticated form and Chinese style.