About EXQUISITE IN

At eight years old, I first held my great-grandmother's embroidery needle. By the firepit in our ancestral home in Zhejiang, she guided my hands to stitch wobbly plum blossoms onto indigo-dyed fabric. "Keep the needle steady as your heartbeat," she whispered. "Every thread carries the spirit of craftswomen who lived three centuries ago."

I didn't understand then why we sat for hours on cold bamboo embroidery frames. That changed when I saw her create "double-sided magic" – peonies blooming in dawn-pink on one side of silk gauze, while glowing moon-white on the reverse.

When I left to study design overseas, my suitcase carried Great-Grandma's "Three Treasures": a faded thimble, hand-drawn pattern books, and half a spool of bamboo-dyed silk thread. While classmates designed digitally, I clung to traditional "ink-outline sketches." The corner of my graduation piece forever holds that polished thimble.

Now, my workshop lights ignite at 5 AM. Master embroiderers still split silk threads into 0.01mm strands using the Ming Dynasty "Seven-Split Method." Our Parisian bestseller – silk ties with "water-path stitching" – appears business-gray from afar, yet conceals West Lake's ripples up close.

Last year, I found a note in Great-Grandma's 1948 ledger: "One thread binds past and present." Finally, I understood – we're not preserving relics, but embroidering dialogues with modernity.

Every product you purchase supports schooling for five children of mountain village embroiderers. These threads connect not just patterns, but warm promises across time and space.

We appreciate that you are a part of this path of good karma.

Guan

Founder