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Four years, 10 million cross-stiches to reproduce famous painting

(Ecns.cn) Updated: 2016-04-14 15:51 Comments

Four years, 10 million cross-stiches to reproduce famous painting

A cross-stich work based on the famous painting Along the River During the Qingming Festival is displayed in Changji city, Northwest China's Uygur autonomous region. It took local resident Zhang Jing four years to finish the work, which measures 22 meters long, 70 centimeters wide, and is 10 kilograms in weight. She also said she used six kilograms of thread and applied more than 10 million cross-stiches for the reproduction of the famed scroll by Zhang Zeduan (1085-1145). [Photo/China News Service]

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