The Present Embroidery
Grandma Li's Anxiety
Development Prospects
 

 

 

The Present Embroidery
 

  The Tu embroidery appears distinctive national characteristics in terms of the Tu people’s daily life as well as in their significant ritual, it also mirrors the Tu people’s pursuit on color and beauty, embodying greatly aesthetic value in terms of form, color, quality, sense and the other. Today, the Tu embroidery has been active in market, among which the coiled embroidery is particular magnificent and of promising prospects.

  Due to the fact that the Tu embroidery is hand-made and people's inadequate knowledge on it, in the last few years, its market share and the prices were far from satisfactory. For a long time, the embroidery has been suffered shadowy sales in the artistic market, resulting of many rural women giving up embroidering as their livelihood. Therefore, the Tu embroidery was in un-optimistic situation, facing the crisis of being lost. These years, the state has been increased investment to strengthen the protection on the intangible heritage. To follow this, the Huzhu County listed the coiled embroidery into one of the local tourism products and offered support in policies and finance, helping it bloom refreshing vitality. Meanwhile, the special marriage customs of the Tu nationality helped to tighten its cultural inheritance rhythm and strongly enhance its development, such distinctive arts thus were gradually improved and getting mature. Because of all these, in the last two years, the Tu women's horizons were broadened that the embroideries they finished covered from clothes further into the statues, wall hangings, columns hold, quilt cover and the other, building the Tu's coiled embroidery works into special artistic products and even essential tourism souvenirs.