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| Weaving on a traditional loom can also be an art. (China Daily/Wei Xiaohao) |
Like Guo, Fan Suping also thought the fair was an excellent opportunity to display her art, which is Shanxi-style embroidery. She displayed a few of her award-winning works on the wall of her booth.
The craftswoman from He-shun county hopes to promote her art to a broader audience.
Shanxi-style embroidery is sewn on layered linen.
"The cloth, pasted together one layer after another, is very hard and thick," she says. "So it's much harder to embroider on.
"It will take a skillful needlewoman one day to make just one small flower. To finish a half-square-meter work, it might take me two or three years."
Running a handmade embroidery center with about 60 employees, including about 20 part-timers, Fan says she is often short handed.
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