Chance to see exquisite embroidery in capital

The Ritz-Carlton Beijing, Financial Street has put Suzhou embroidery masterpieces on display, saving the city's art lovers the long journey to East China's Jiangsu province.

The exhibition, held on June 19-23 at the hotel, showcases some 40 works of Pu Huiju, the award-winning master of Suzhou embroidery.

Since she started to practice embroidery at the age of 7, Pu kept innovating embroidery techniques while inheriting the traditional. Splash-ink embroidery, which uses dark threads of different shades to embroider work that looks like a Chinese ink painting, was developed by Pu. One of her splash-ink embroidery works won a first prize in Japan in 1991.

Pu has held a series of embroidery exhibitions and cultural exchanges in countries including Singapore, the United States, Russia, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Her aim is to share the art of Suzhou embroidery with the rest of the world.

She is the fourth-generation successor of Shen Shou, an embroiderer during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). She created the groundbreaking technique of emulational embroidery. The technique brought Chinese embroidery art to a new height.

As one of the four notable genres of embroidery in China - with the other three originating from Sichuan, Guangdong and Hunan provinces - Suzhou embroidery has a history of more than 2,000 years and enjoys popularity worldwide.