| Staffs perform embroidery at the Chinese Gallery of Embroidery Art in Suzhou city, east China's Jiangsu Province, September 26, 2007. Embroidery is a traditional Chinese craft, which consists of pulling colored threads through a background material with embroidery needles to stitch colored patterns that have been previously designed on the ground. The construction of the gallery, which started in 2005 and covers an area of 8000 square meters, has been planned on the architectural style prevalent in the south of Yangtze River. There is a history hall, an embroidery demonstration hall, a research and development center as well as other sections. Even the halls in the gallery have been decorated with four famous Chinese embroidery styles, namely the Su embroidery of Jiangsu Province, the Xiang embroidery of Hunan Province, the Yue embroidery of Guangdong Province and the Shu embroidery of Sichuan Province. (Xinhua) |
