Hair Embroidery in Late Imperial China

  CULTURE: Textile
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Hair embroidery is a particular technique practiced by lay Buddhist women to create devotional images. The embroiderers used their own hair as threads and applied them on silk to stitch figures. Scholars contend that this tradition started from the Tang D

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Hair Embroidery in Late Imperial China
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