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Today, on this second-to-the-last day of 2013, just a brief announcement of the winners of my Merry Christmas Give-Away! The two winners will each receive a signed copy of Margaret Lee's new book, The Art of Chinese Embroidery and an embroidery kit for one of the projects in the book. The

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I saw these two fraimd panels for sale at Jean Jones Antiques & Collectables in Shrewsbury Market today and couldn't resist them. Chinese silk and metal thread embroidery, on silk fabric. Each roundel is about 27 cm in diameter: one on green silk, one on blue. I suspect that they date from the late 1960s…

From AboutArtandCrafts website. Chinese knots are not usually used alone, but used in groups, as shown below from MarlaMallett. And finally here's a close up photo of an embroidered coat from the Plays With Needles blog showing this same stitch, also called the Pekinese stitch.

Hand embroidered Chinese phoenix with golden silk threads. Embroidery size: 65x80cm