With a history exceeding 2,000 years, Suzhou embroidery is considered the "pearl of oriental art" for its beautiful designs, varied stitches, superb workmanship and elegant colors.

    Early in Song Dynasty, it was already given the reputation of being "delicate and close in stitch and meticulous and wonderful in colour"; and up to Qing Dynasty, Suzhou embroidery has developed into a period of great prosperity, and "embroidering fair" became one of the flourishing scenes of Suzhou.

    The craftsmen and women of Suzhou embroidery have worked industrously with merely small embroidery needles, pouring all their wisdom and talent into Suzhou embroidery, or as the people would put it "wonder can be made with needle points and spring born under fingers". All that has given the famous Suzhou embroidery the charm of distinction between near water and distant mountains, the feature of deepness of chambers and pavikions, the interest of liveliness of human activity, and the attraction of feacefulness of flowers and birds, making this flower of art higgly appreciated on all of the five continents.