Archive for August, 2009

Krista QQ(www.123giftfactory.com) said: Qiang’s ethnic folk art are rooted in China’s ancient history and folk culture, applied with colorful silk threads and cotton color threads, Qiang nation’s peoples created various embroidery patterns and images such as flowers and fruits, fowls and beasts, pines, bamboos, plums, chrysanthemums, a mass of blossom, Harmony in Water and Fish [...]

Krista QQ(www.123giftfactory.com) said: Embroidery is one of traditional Chinese folk industrial arts styles, is an integral part in China’s folk culture. Qiang’s folk embroidery art is the image carrier of Qiang nation’s culture, it is a direct and aesthetic symbolic performance of customs and lifeways of the minority nation with a long history.Qiang people’s folk [...]

Emantras said: Indian tribal art is a part and parcel of this multivariate heritage and throws up beautiful insights into human nature and lifestyle amongst Indian tribes of those ages. The art forms included paintings which are an integral part of the tribal tradition and often mirrored the lifestyle and traditions of the era. They were [...]

Will said: Originally Khokhloma wood tableware were produced in monasteries and for the czar court only. At that time Khokhloma tableware production was not large scale. It was because of expensive imported tin. In 1720s after the end of the North War tin flow to Russian increased. The price went down and the material came [...]

Krista QQ(www.123giftfactory.com) said: Paper-cutting and embroidery are both folk industrial art forms of China, they both are indivisible parts of Chinese folk culture. As a wonderful art miracle of Qiang nation culture, Qiang embroidery, in terms of design, color, form or stitch styles, are all imbued with rich deposits of the ancient Qiang nation’s millennium [...]


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