Introduction

Portrait Embroidery is a new kind of handcraft created in the world, and a skill unique to the East.

WenZhou Portrait Embroidery Institute is the only institute in China which specializes in embroidery of mondern figures. Color Embroidery, Sketch Embroidery and Hair Embroidery are the main forms studied in the institute. Among which, Hair Embroidery has become a school of its own in the field of crafts and fine arts in China. Professor Wei Jingxian, head of Wenzhou Portrait Embroidery Institute, is the inventor and researcher who has spent more than twenty years on this wonder.

The unique characteristics of the Hair Embroidered Portrait lie in the fact that it adopts the principles of painting and uses human hair as the thread to embroider on satin. Because of the natural brightness and beauty of hair, the embroidered portrait looks very vivid and elegant with the effect of three dimensions. Moreover, they can be kept forever.

In recent year, many hair- embroidered portraits have been presented as China's State Gifts to leaders in other countries and won the world praise as "An art unmatched in the world!"