Amazing Tibetan art of needle and silk thread

🤷‍♀️ What: Exhibition of Tibetan Embroidery art
🌐: Dukezong Old Town, Shangri-la
🎟️Entrance: Free
🖼️🏷️: from about 60 yuan to lets just say a lot
Artist level: From amateur to Grandmaster
Motives: Tibetan, ☸️🕉️ Buddhist, ⬅️Western

How'd we get there?

We stumbled upon this wonderful event by accident. Luckily a kind English speaking guide gave us a complete tour of the exhibition and introduced us to the displayed artwork explaining the history and significance of the motives and illustrations. So if you want to know more, he's probably a better source of information than yours truly but I'll try.

Mostly, the works display buddhist motives( from mandalas to Guanyin, the goddess of mercy and Gautama Siddhartha himself), but you can also spot some western ones as well( Van Gogh for example). Other elements include landscapes, animals and every-day people.

What is embroidery art? 🪡🧵🖼️

The most basic description of embroidery is the art of using a needle and thread to decorate fabric. You can look at it as stitching traditional culture into light fabric. Tibetan needlework uses silk threads specifically.

This is in no way a skill one can develop overnight. It takes years, nay decades to develop and perfect the arts.

Tibetan embroidery tradition has been passed down and developed for hungered of years and the profound needlework displayed at the gallery is hard to put into words.

Amazing:

What's really amazing about this exhibition is that, not only does it present the work of some of the best artists in the field, but also helps enthusiastic amateurs gain and boost confidence by promoting their work.

💲🧵🖼️You can buy handcrafts from local craftsmen, teenagers, housewives and elderly who are just looking to put their work at display.
The precise technique of the details on more advanced work is mind blowing. So much that from a certain distance it's easy to mistakenly confuse the handcraft with a regular painting.

📍You can visit the Tibetan Embroidery Academy at the Dukezong old town l, next to the famous Defu Prayer Wheel.

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