Long Lingxiang
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, Dong ethnicity, born in September 1964, a native of Jinping County, Guizhou Province. She has a thorough command of every stage of the process, from spinning, weaving and dyeing to pattern drawing and embroidery, and is a leading embroiderer in her locality. She has created a large number of outstanding works and is representative and highly influential in the field of Dong embroidery. Her works inherit the features of northern Dong rolled-edge embroidery: their subjects are rich, their forms exaggerated, their colours bright and vivid, and their expressive power strong. In addition, she has opened an embroidery workshop and took the lead in founding the Jinping County Northern Dong Embroidery Technique Association, guiding more than two hundred women into embroidery and higher incomes.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Dong Embroidery, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. Born into a Dong embroidery family, she loved embroidery from childhood and began learning Dong embroidery under her family's instruction at the age of thirteen. She lays equal stress on master-to-apprentice transmission and on transmission through society at large, and has trained a considerable number of successors.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Dong Embroidery Ⅶ-107
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