The fine embroidery reflects the talent of Minazu women. This is a blue homespun clothes with loose waist, broad sleeves and big fronts, woven and dyed by Gelao women who are living in Zhuangzu Autonomous Region of Guangxi Province. This is the jacket for Lizu people in Hainan Province with a open chest and bottoms down the front but no collar, woven with fiber crops. This is the traditional dress for Lizu women who are lining in Hainan Province. In the early time, they used to take kapok and fiber crops as material, and later they use cotton.
Chinese embroidery has a long history.
It was said that Xun ordered Yu to finish the colorful embroidery. During the period of Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties, the art had been being developed, and during Ming and Qing Dynasties, the folk embroidery art had been developed further and successively created the famous Sochou Embroidery, Guangdong Embroidery, Hunan Embroidery, Sichuan Embroidery etc. with their own unique styles which are handed down to present day and will last long. This is the wooden loom of Tujiazu with a long, history on which are produced the brocades with the unique national styles. The quilt cover sewn with 3 pieces of brocade is used as a girl's Jewry and is the evidence of her cleverness and deftness. It is woven on the ancient wooden loom with the cotton threads of 5 colors including red, yellow, blue, white and black in the way of connecting warp and disconnecting weft, owning breadth of 1 chi and 3 cun, length of about 3 chi, magnificent pattern, and solid and durable quality.