Suzhou embroidery: Suzhou or "Su" embroidery in China is one of the oldest embroidery techniques in the world, with origins stretching back more than 2,000 years. Suzhou embroidery was one of the first embroidery styles to be developed in China, but its detailed needlework and intricate images are still produced today. It is a style characterized by brightly colored silk embroidered with well-proportioned and uncluttered representations of almost any pastoral scene, person, animal, or object. Examples of Suzhou embroidery were so detailed and intricate that many people used the pieces as artwork, and some of the oldest pieces still in existence date back hundreds of years.

The quality of silk embroideries varies tremendously. Prices of silk embroideries varies with the quality.High-grade Suzhou embroidery works have much higher quality in almost all aspects compared to ordinary Suzhou embroidery products. All high-grade embroidery works are designed by artists with senior or higher titles. The embroiders also have to pass certain qualification to perform the needlework for high-grade embroidery.

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Quality Introduction of Silk Embroideries from Suzhou China

Low quality

    Low quality silk embroideries are often found in some tourist spots. They normally look not bad from a distance. While you take a close look at them, you will see they are not 100% hand embroidered. There is only little hand embroidery work in each silk embroidery picture. The background is often printed. The embroidery work is done with full silk threads and there is a noticeable space between each two silk threads. The stitches are very long. The whole embroidery work has limited colors and is always done with one layer.  
    
   Some people buy low quality silk embroideries because they are cheap, while others buy them because they don't know much about Chinese silk embroideries and they think all the silk embroideries are the same. A low quality silk embroidery can be a good choice as a tourist souvenir. But since the background is printed not embroidered, its colors may fade with time.

Fine Quality 
     Most of the silk embroideries people see in shops while they are traveling in China are fine quality silk embroideries. These embroideries look much better than average quality embroideries. They are 100% hand embroidered , not printed. The embroidery work is always done with split silk threads. (One silk thread can be divided into 16 thinner silk threads, and even more by some skilled embroidery artists. Most of the embroidery work in a fine quality silk embroidery is done with 1/2 to 1/4 silk thread, using silk threads that are divided 2 to 3 times)

Top Quality 
 
  It takes from several months to even several years to complete one top quality silk embroidery. Top quality silk embroideries are very expensive because they require higher embroidery skills and techniques and take much longer time The embroidery work is done with very thin silk threads, 1/16 silk threads or silk threads divided 4 times (and even thinner by some master embroidery artists, 1/32 and 1/64 applied in some special parts of the embroidery work. Many of the silk embroideries in Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute (located in Jingde Road, Suzhou, China) are top quality silk embroideries, embroideries at the same quality level as depicted in the book "Threads of Light".
 
  
   By making top quality, we will use much thinner silk threads when making the embroidery painting, with some silk threads so thin that are almost invisible to naked eyes used in some important parts of the embroidery work, for instance the face of a portrait, to make the skin as realistic as photograph. Also more colors of silk threads will be applied. The whole embroidery work will be denser, more smooth, more harmoniously mixed and more tiny details will be embroidered. When you touch the embroidery, it feels like a silk satin.