Gu Wenxia
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Female, of Han ethnicity, born in 1931, a native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. She was a national representative bearer of Suzhou Embroidery, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, and a Master of Chinese Arts and Crafts. In the 1950s, under the guidance of the veteran artist Jin Jingfen of the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute, her skill advanced rapidly. In 1955 she wrote Suxiu Zhenfa Zhonglei he Xiuzhi Fangfa (The Types of Suzhou Embroidery Stitches and Methods of Embroidery), which was translated into Russian by the state and forwarded to the Soviet Union as material for cultural exchange. In 1969 she spent a year teaching her craft in Albania. In 1986 she founded the China Suzhou Embroidery Art Museum. Her embroideries possess the artistic qualities of antiquity, refinement, and novelty, and she made outstanding contributions to inheriting the traditional craft of Suzhou embroidery and to developing new products. Her embroidery subjects were chiefly cats, fish, flowers, and the like.
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Representative Items of This Bearer
- Suzhou Embroidery Ⅶ-18
- Suzhou Embroidery Ⅶ-18
- Suzhou Embroidery Ⅶ-18
- Suzhou Embroidery Ⅶ-18
- Suzhou Embroidery Ⅶ-18
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