Born in 1970 in a village in Badu Yao township, Tianlin county, Pan is a representative inheritor of the Tianlin Yao embroidery art. Pan began learning embroidery at a young age. After years of study ...
[Photo/Xinhua] Pan Haiyan demonstrates needlework technique to an apprentice, talks with embroiderers and carries a bundle of fabrics (below left) at her embroidery workshop in Tianlin county ...
Love of decorating with thread is in the veins of sisters Elaine Perkins and Wanda Salmans. Perkins gravitates toward embroidery work; Salmans, toward tatting. Perkins started doing embroidery when ...