Folk fabric: Chinese villages where unsung artists dwell. (Culture).(folk arts in China)(Brief Article)

New Internationalist | April 1, 2002| | Copyright

A 350-metre-long patchwork quilt made of 1,000 cloth pieces is carrying an urgent cultural message to the Chinese. The quilt symbolizes the need to preserve the country's folk art, which is in danger of dying out. One thousand people from farming families living along the Yellow River contributed their talents to the quilt, named Qianjiaxiu, Chinese for '1,000 families embroidery'.

Guo Qingfeng, a folk-arts teacher from north-west China's Shaanxi province, spearheaded the project. 'Folk art is like the soil of our traditional culture,' he says.

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