This embroidery artwork is so good they resemble paintings.

This video, filmed in the city of Shanghai on August 18, 2019, shows an elderly woman named Zhu Qinghua using a needle and silk to create the artwork in a Gu Embroidery Studio.

The completed embroidery artwork resembled a traditional Chinese painting. So the Gu embroidery is also called "painting embroidery."

Gu embroidery is a style of Chinese decorative needlework that originated during the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and was very popular well into the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

The embroidery is worked with fine floss silk thread in various colours on a silk background.

Gu embroidery is a style of Chinese decorative needlework that originated during the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and was very popular well into the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). The embroidery is worked with fine floss silk thread in various colours on a silk background.

This video shows us Master Zhu Qinghua works on an embroidery work in a Gu Embroidery Studio in Shanghai. She also demonstrates how to split silk thread, reputedly finer than a human hair. The finished work is so exquisite and one may mistake it as a traditional Chinese painting. It is actually also called "Painting Embroidery".

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