Our mission is focus on supplying high quality Eco-friendly home interior accessories items and home textiles to worldwide. Currently our major products are genuine vintage style handmade embroidery woolen needlepoint wall tapestry and handmade cotton bobbin lace products made by traditional way. Both of these two kinds of handicrafts are valuable cultural heritage of Yantai city which have been exporting to Europe and America earlier from end of 19th century until now. Currently our Yantai city is just in the process of applying for intangible cultural heritage of Yantai woolen needlepoint tapestry. Next year we can get certificate of it. Looking at these amazing craftworks created by wisdom of fingertips, your heart will be melted^.. Setting up this company was inspired by my thought of last year: on that day I was tired of so many industrial products in my home: home electrical appliances, plastic items and clothes weaved by machines, no soul, no feeling^ so who robbed the rights of our peaceful and slow down moment at our home? Tapestries were among the richest and most costly furnishings of the early modern period in Europe. By 1500 they had become particularly popular with the nobility of northern Europe and played an important role as a means of movable interior decoration. Generally speaking, the traditional European tapestry is either woven woolen tapestry by loom or hand-made cross stitched cotton or woolen needlepoint tapestry. Yantai is the birthplace of China woolen needlepoint tapestry. Actually this amazing art was introduced to Yantai by French missionary, it was said that her name is Ms. Smith. Around beginning of 20th century, China's first woolen needlepoint tapestry factory was set up at Xi'nan village of Chefoo (the old name of Yantai), less than 1 km away from the old residence of my grandparents. Their made tapestries were mainly exported to USA through James McMullan Co., Ltd, again this is a company set up by British missionary named James McMullan, who is the founder of Chefoo industrial mission. Meanwhile his wife named Lily McMullan introduced another kind of fork handicraft cotton bobbin lace from England to Yantai. End of 19th century, cotton bobbin lace started to be exporting to British, German and France continually. So "Lily McMullan was eventually credited with starting the whole embroidery industry in Shantung province" (which is the old name of Shandong, Yantai is a city of Shandong province), according to , a book written by the grandson of James McMullan. This year is the 100 years anniversary of Mr. James McMullan passing away, we think at this moment it will have special meaning for us to recall him: he and his wife did not only show unconditional loving and caring for the orphans and poor people of Yantai through his industry mission, but also boosting the whole industry and exporting business for Yantai (at that time more than 0.1 million persons in Yantai were engaged in the making of woolen needlepoint tapestry and cotton bobbin lace). During the development of tapestry for more than 100 years, Yantai local artisans integrated local embroidery technique into Europe woolen needlepoint tapestry and created their own style, which later became world-wide known as the "oriental oil painting". If we can use a beautiful melody to describe woolen needlepoint tapestry, the perfect combination of European folk art and traditional fork embroidery of Yantai composes the climax of this melody! In order to revive woolen needlepoint tapestry, in Yantai there are some artisans are working diligently for it. But the skillful ones are rare and they are getting older, even the youngest one is more than 60 years old, my aunt is one of them. Sometimes I am confused if her lovely character inspired her works or her works influenced and developed her lovely character. May these amazing handicrafts created by fingertips enlightening your heart like Lily of the Valleys!
China Chic handmade tapestry bouquet wool carpet tableau interior decorative wall hanging crafts made in Yantai of Shandong
Carpet, Tapestry, Folk Crafts
Yantai stunning hand stitched needlework snow deer scenery wall embroidered tapestry needlepoint woolwork wall hanging craft
Tapestry, Folk Crafts, Needlework
Our mission is focus on supplying high quality Eco-friendly home interior accessories items and home textiles to worldwide. Currently our major products are genuine vintage style handmade embroidery woolen needlepoint wall tapestry and handmade cotton bobbin lace products made by traditional way. Both of these two kinds of handicrafts are valuable cultural heritage of Yantai city which have been exporting to Europe and America earlier from end of 19th century until now. Currently our Yantai city is just in the process of applying for intangible cultural heritage of Yantai woolen needlepoint tapestry. Next year we can get certificate of it. Looking at these amazing craftworks created by wisdom of fingertips, your heart will be melted^.. Setting up this company was inspired by my thought of last year: on that day I was tired of so many industrial products in my home: home electrical appliances, plastic items and clothes weaved by machines, no soul, no feeling^ so who robbed the rights of our peaceful and slow down moment at our home? Tapestries were among the richest and most costly furnishings of the early modern period in Europe. By 1500 they had become particularly popular with the nobility of northern Europe and played an important role as a means of movable interior decoration. Generally speaking, the traditional European tapestry is either woven woolen tapestry by loom or hand-made cross stitched cotton or woolen needlepoint tapestry. Yantai is the birthplace of China woolen needlepoint tapestry. Actually this amazing art was introduced to Yantai by French missionary, it was said that her name is Ms. Smith. Around beginning of 20th century, China's first woolen needlepoint tapestry factory was set up at Xi'nan village of Chefoo (the old name of Yantai), less than 1 km away from the old residence of my grandparents. Their made tapestries were mainly exported to USA through James McMullan Co., Ltd, again this is a company set up by British missionary named James McMullan, who is the founder of Chefoo industrial mission. Meanwhile his wife named Lily McMullan introduced another kind of fork handicraft cotton bobbin lace from England to Yantai. End of 19th century, cotton bobbin lace started to be exporting to British, German and France continually. So "Lily McMullan was eventually credited with starting the whole embroidery industry in Shantung province" (which is the old name of Shandong, Yantai is a city of Shandong province), according to , a book written by the grandson of James McMullan. This year is the 100 years anniversary of Mr. James McMullan passing away, we think at this moment it will have special meaning for us to recall him: he and his wife did not only show unconditional loving and caring for the orphans and poor people of Yantai through his industry mission, but also boosting the whole industry and exporting business for Yantai (at that time more than 0.1 million persons in Yantai were engaged in the making of woolen needlepoint tapestry and cotton bobbin lace). During the development of tapestry for more than 100 years, Yantai local artisans integrated local embroidery technique into Europe woolen needlepoint tapestry and created their own style, which later became world-wide known as the "oriental oil painting". If we can use a beautiful melody to describe woolen needlepoint tapestry, the perfect combination of European folk art and traditional fork embroidery of Yantai composes the climax of this melody! In order to revive woolen needlepoint tapestry, in Yantai there are some artisans are working diligently for it. But the skillful ones are rare and they are getting older, even the youngest one is more than 60 years old, my aunt is one of them. Sometimes I am confused if her lovely character inspired her works or her works influenced and developed her lovely character. May these amazing handicrafts created by fingertips enlightening your heart like Lily of the Valleys!
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