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Thousands of years of history is sewed in handcrafted Chinese Miao clothing
Who are the Miao?
More than 100 various Miao minority groups live in the mountainous areas of southern and southwestern China. Each group has its unique clothing, and the women’s costume are particularly interesting. Embroidery, batik, and beautiful silver jewelry are all indispensable additions to Miao style.
Clothes for the holidays
During holidays, weddings, and other large ceremonies, Miao women usually wear a short jacket with beautiful, embroidered patterns on the narrow sleeves, shoulders, and collar. In some areas, you can see shine silver pieces are sewed onto the front, back, and lap of their jackets. This is so-called silver jacket.
Their elegant pleated skirt can have 40 layers with more than 500 pleats. In some areas, women wear long skirt reaching all the way down to their feet.Their short skirt reaches to the knees.
An embroidered apron dropping in front of the skirt also comes to the knees or feet. Flying behind the apron, the long and beautiful waistbands seem like a pheasant’s colorful tail feathers. Some women also wear leggings and embroidered shoes.
With extraordinary silver ornaments, like big silver headdress, neckbands, earrings, and silver bracelets to go with these clothes, many Miao women can proudly claim they are the most beautiful women in the world.
Miao clothes usually have five colors: yellow, blue, red, white, and black. The clothes are always homemade by Miao women themselves.
Casual suits
Miao casual suits look simple and light, but they are still very beautiful. Jackets, pants, shirts, and aprons all have elaborate patterns embroidered on them.
On informal occasions, Miao women wear an embroidered handkerchief on their head instead of the heavy silver headdress that’s worn during the holidays.
Embroidery
Girls start to learn how to embroider from their mother when they are only seven or eight years old. By the time they’re 14 or 15, each girl has become a skilled embroiderer. To prepare a dowry, a suit of embroidered clothes is need, which will take them 3-5 years to make before they are ready to get married.
The excellent Miao embroidery work reflects their culture, history, and religion. The pattern of butterflies, dragons, flowers, animals, mountains are always sewed in their embroidered piece.
Without historical scripts for many generations, the Miao have their history reflected on their beautiful embroidered clothing.Many old stories are reflected on the patterns that have been bequeathed for generations. Actually almost each embroidered pattern has an interesting story.
Batik
Techniques for making batik, a durable cloth with remarkable colors and designs, have been around for more than 1,000 years.
First, a Miao artisan will use a knife dipped in hot wax to draw a pattern on a piece of white cloth. Then five various colors are used to dye the cloth in a big vat. After dyeing, the cloth is ready to be rinsed and boiled.
Chinese Miao batik art is quite interesting and unique. C. Liu has spent many years studying and researching the fascinating Miao culture. Go to her website to learn more about Miao batick and other fascinating arts like beautiful Miao silver ornaments.
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