Great art often inspires further creativity, sometimes in a surprising form. For Tim Flach, a London-based animal photographer, the idea that some of his best works would be recreated through the art ...

Peng Shiping looks attentively as her 28-year-old daughter Peng Lin is embroidering a fish on silk. The 55-year-old master of Shu embroidery would stop her daughter if she found her stitches were ...

Chinese silk embroidery has been a staple of national culture and tradition for thousands of years, with pieces being found from as early as the Zhou dynasty (1046 to 256BC). Its unusual durability ...

Suzhou embroidery is one of the most celebrated styles of Chinese silk embroidery, named for the city of Suzhou in China's Jiangsu province. With a history of more than 2,000 years, this form of ...