Chinese hand embroidery  

Chinese silk embroidery - Chinese painting art with needle and silk lines.

When you first see Chinese silk embroideries, you would take the embroidery pictures as oil paintings or photographs. They look so realistic that one can't but wonder how the embroidery pictures made.

The silk embroidery pictures are entirely hand embroidered with silk lines on silk background. The embroidery artists use very fine silk lines, silk lines split 2 times, 3 times even 4 times for some detailed part.

Among all the silk embroideries in China, the embroidery made by artists in Suzhou(also know as Su Embroidery) is widely considered as the best.

This website www.suembroidery.com has much information on this silk embroidery from Suzhou, with history, introduction, images and purchase information online.

Fine quality Chinese hand embroidery works are very expensive because it's very timie-consumin to make one fine quality emboridery, from several months to even several years. I don't know what other people think about this silk handicrafts. Are there many people who will spend that much money on one single embroidery picutre?