Profiting from tradition
By Zhang Zixuan | China Daily | Updated: 2010-10-25 07:58
Age-old needlework finds new life in the skilled hands of an embroiderer at the First China Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition in Jinan, Shandong province. Cui Pengsen / For China Daily |
Zhou Shuangxi, from Jiangsu province, demonstrates the working of the Dahualou Yunjin loom to produce the famed Yunjin brocade. Photos by Zhang Zixuan / China Daily |
Yang Zhi, from Henan province, even today uses a pottery wheel driven by a stick, to produce fine Jun porcelain. |
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