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At her studio near Chengdu’s Wenshu Temple, Meng takes us through the painstakingly meticulous work required to create each piece. For some works, many layers of embroidery are needed and the detail required to create delicate facial features, for example, is astonishing. Here one silk thread is divided into thirty pieces, with each part thinner than hair. She tells us the double-faced embroidery, with different pictures on two sides, is a unique technique only seen in Shu embroidery.
“On this side there is a dragon, while on the other side is a phoenix. The cloud is embroidered here to make the two sides match,” Meng Dezhi said.
Meng Dezhi has been honored as the nation’s designated inheritor of this craft and has also been awarded the highest honor in craft making in China, the "National-class Master Craftsman". In 2006 she was invited to open a studio in Wenshu Street, the historical and tourist centre in Chengdu. She says this was a turning point in her career.
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