Folk embroidery in Korea: traditional patterns and styles of embroidery
The traditional Korean embroidery is extraordinary. Let’s look at these beautiful patterns and designs with Korean Master Embroider Lee…
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The art of Tibetan and Qiang embroidery
Today, we’d like to introduce you to the Tibetan and Qiang embroidery. These samples of embroidery definitely are worth seeing – they are…
Gorgeous jewelry of Indian Maharaja and Maharani – great and wealthy rulers of India
Indian Maharaja and Maharani used to wear tons of gold, gems, and massive jewelry pieces. It is traditional for Indian culture to wear a…
Top-5 most popular traditional Japanese outfits
Japan has a wide variety of folk garments. Usually, they are multilayered and intricately decorated. We chose the most popular and beloved…
Male national costume of Bhutan. How to wear a gho
Bhutanese men’s folk costume is charismatic and unusual. You definitely notice the shoes – beautifully adorned works of art. But the whole…
National costume of the Filipino Tboli people
In the Philippines, there is a curious ethnic group – the Tboli people. They have beautiful traditional costumes, decorated with…
Evolution of Japanese kimono. 15th-century kimonos and modern red carpet kimonos
Few historical garments capture the imagination the way the kimono does. Let’s talk a bit about the kimono’s evolution, its unique…
Cambodian textile got a second life. Cambodian traditional silk ikat weaving
Cambodian traditional silk ikat weaving was on the brink of extinction when a Japanese craftsman Kikuo Morimoto found out about it and…
How pakol hat is made. The male headdress of Pakistan and Afghanistan
The pakol hat is not a headwear of terrorists, as some people think. It is an ancient piece that was worn by men millenniums ago. This…
Black Hmong traditional costume, Vietnam
The Hmong people are an indigenous ethnic group in Asia. They live in China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and even the USA. Today, we’ll tell…
Chinese daily Hanfu vs traditional Hanfu: real-life stories
This is a story of one Chinese girl Tongzhou Zhuo (or Jerry) who lives in Australia right now and is promoting the Chinese traditional…
Japanese wedding dress and wedding ceremony
Japanese wedding outfit, especially the bridal one, is rather complicated and heavy but very authentic-looking and offbeat. The groom’s…
Miao embroidery is the only native written language Miao people have
The Miao people, who live in China, pass their legends, traditions, and history with a help of embroidery – they don’t have their own…
Textile tradition of Uzbekistan. Uzbek folk weaving and embroidery
Uzbekistan has a long and rich history of such clothing crafts as weaving and embroidering. The products of local craftswomen can be seen…
Indonesian batik. It takes 14 steps to make batik fabric
Batik fabric is very popular in Indonesia. A lot of traditional garments are made from this cloth. But it is a hard work to put the design…
Jamdani fabric, made in Bangladesh, might be the most beautiful hand-woven fabric in the world
One of the most delicate and beautiful fabrics in the world, hand-woven on a loom, is a Jamdani – traditional muslin cloth of Bangladesh.…
Collection of Japanese kimono, obi belts, and accessories (+ photos)
Japanese kimono is a unique garment. It differs so much from most other folk costumes around the world. We offer you a very fine collection…
Yuki-tsumugi weaving technique. How to make Japanese hand-woven silk fabric
Japanese people have been producing, exporting, and using silk fabric for hundreds and hundreds of years. Traditionally, the process of…
Japanese kasuri – Japanese tie-dye textile similar to ikat
Japanese traditional kasuri textile is a Japanese equivalent of ikat fabric (popular in Indonesia, India, African and Latin American…
Traditional textile of Chinese Li people: spinning, dyeing, weaving, and embroidering
In China, there is an interesting ethnic group – Li people. Traditionally, they master in growing cotton and producing cotton weavings.…
Batik from Java island. The craft of making Indonesian batik
Indonesians widely use a batik cloth made by a special technique of wax-resist dyeing. During the dye process, the waxed areas resist the…
Chinese traditional hair embroidery. Long human hair serves as threads
I’ll never tire to say that the Chinese culture can be unique and even strange for a European, American, or African mind. But the…
Handmade kuitou – fascinating Chinese opera headdresses
Chinese traditional opera is very unique. And one of the most important crafts in this area is the headdress making. The headgear used by…
How Chinese traditional wedding dresses are made and embroidered
The most special clothing. Maybe you’ll only wear it once in your life. The most important dress in a woman’s life – a wedding gown. China…