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Hunan Provincial Embroidery Institute
China, an East Asian country is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. It has a vast cultural history of more than five thousand years and an outstanding natural beauty. On the other hand, this country has remained a comparatively isolated and secluded one, and being a land of mystery, this country is not known to the western half of the world. However, China is rapidly developing and has grown in the phase of modernization, with an immense speed and is also welcoming the outer world to interact and do business with them.
The Hunan Provincial Embroidery Institute was established in 1956 and is one of the famous centers of embroidery found in China. Visitors can view demonstrations of the creative process. Also known as the Hunan Embroidery Research Institute is a main producer and researcher of Hunan embroidery and has a 400 plus member staff, among whom, there are 4 national great masters and 50 masters in arts and crafts devoted to preserving and developing Hunan embroidery techniques. The Lion and Tiger in Pengmao stitch which was originated by HERI are famous traditional products. Double-sided embroidery different in every point was created recently and praised as super embroidery. Since 1949, HERI's embroiderers have produced a series of articles that are famed at home and abroad.
The Lion and Tiger, designed and embroidered by its great masters and embroiderers in 1982, won the gold cup in the Flowers Award of the Chinese National Arts and Crafts. Both of them were chosen as national treasure in 1985, Landscape in the Dongting of 1983, a huge double-sided embroidery, was chosen as the state gift. Yang Yuhuan, the Highest-ranking Imperial Concubine of 1981, a double sided embroidery different in every point, was collected by the Chinese History Museum, Full Moon of l985, also a double-sided embroidery different in every point, was, as a state treasure, collected by the Chinese Arts and Crafts Gallery. And many others have been distributed around the world.
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