The bag that connects the world
This Mother's Day, let your gift tell a story that transcends time. We are proud to present the Zhaojun Silk Clutch, an ode to the legendary Wang Zhaojun, a Han Dynasty heroine who brought lasting peace to the two nations. Her story is circulated in historical records and among the Chinese people.
✨Why does the china bag touch the hearts of mothers? ✨
☑️ Cultural heritage: Using the 2,000-year-old Suzhou embroidery technique, it takes 48 hours to hand-sew - each tassel represents Zhaojun's fifty-year heritage of peace.
☑️ Silk-like toughness: The three-layer brocade is not easy to wrinkle, just like a mother resolving family conflicts.
The history of brocade:
Brocade never pleases the times, it just waits elegantly for the times to understand it.
—— Lu Meihua, inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, sighed while restoring Tang Dynasty diamond-patterned brocade in the Dunhuang Caves
At the Paris show where Hermès paid tribute to Yunjin with the "Oriental Secrets" series, and when celebrities in New York competed to collect contemporary art framed by Su-made Song brocade, the world is rediscovering a truth - brocade is a luxury gene deeply rooted in the marrow of Chinese civilization.
From the jacquard machine technology brought back by Zhang Qian from the Western Han Dynasty to the weaving scene of "one piece of brocade and ten hu of pearls" in the Southern Song Dynasty's "Pictures of Farming and Weaving", brocade has always been the material embodiment of the top aesthetics of the East. Unlike the luster-plundering of Western silk, the nobility of brocade lies in the use of warp and weft as pens to depict mountains and rivers:
The emblem of power: the "golden python pattern over the shoulder" on the dragon robes of the Ming and Qing dynasties, let the gold thread crawl and wander between the warp and weft, and the emperor's majesty flickers with the folds of the fabric;
The character of the literati: the literati of the Song Dynasty mounted the "fallen flowers and flowing water brocade" as a study painting, watching the brocade lotus float with the waves, just like a poetic annotation of the ups and downs of the officialdom;
The philosophy of the mother: the "descendants' brocade quilt" in the dowry of Jiangnan must be mixed with old brocade fragments - let the bride start a new life with family memories, which is a more profound inheritance narrative than any luxury leather goods.
The ultimate game of luxury goods: when mechanical printing lowers the threshold of silk, hand-woven brocade that takes several months becomes a class symbol. Zhou Ying, a descendant of Suzhou Weaving House, pointed out: "The real top stream is not the LOGO, but the epic of warp and weft that people can read with their fingertips."
The deep narrative of the national trend: Tmall data shows that the repurchase rate of single products containing intangible cultural heritage brocade elements is 3 times higher than that of ordinary domestic products - consumers are not buying fabrics, but the emotional privilege of "participating in the inheritance of civilization."
The oriental answer to sustainable fashion: A piece of Kujin from the 1950s was disassembled and rewoven into a limited edition handbag by craftsmen, causing a sensation at the Milan exhibition. "This is called Upcycling in Europe, and in China, we call it 'cherishing things'." Curator Li Tang said.
