Were Hungarian embroiderers of centuries past encoding secret musical messages into their decorative textiles? Nope! But Zsanett Szirmay is decoding them anyway. The designer's latest project, ...

Embroidery, an enthralling craftsmanship appreciated for many centuries, requires the decoration of fabric with complex designs meticulously stitched with a needle and thread. In the past, all ...

Two thousand years ago, Sichuan embroidery from Chengdu was transported to the West via the ancient Silk Road, becoming a fashion item among royalty in ancient Rome. Today, Sichuan embroidery is again ...

Lan Lin works on her embroidery. She is an inheritor of Zhuang embroidery from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. LIANG SHUN/XINHUA NANNING — Wearing an apron with intricately embroidered patterns ...