Extension of Suzhou embroidery (Suzhou hair embroidery) Hair embroidery is a unique embroidery in Suzhou embroidery. It uses hair instead of thread, and takes advantage of its natural colors such as black, white, gray, yellow, and brown, as well as its fine, soft, shiny, and smooth characteristics. It uses different needlework techniques such as rolling needles, wrapping needles, connecting needles, and cutting needles to create embroidery works. The images are vivid, elegant, and the stitches are fine and dense, with sharp contrasts, forming a unique style. Compared with silk embroidery, hair embroidery is also wear-resistant and corrosion-resistant, never fades, is elastic, and is easy to collect. There is a legend that Emperor Cao Cao of Wei "cut his hair instead of his head", and a folk woman would give her lover a "strand of black hair" to express her unswerving love. During the heyday of Buddhism, devout women began to use their own hair to embroider Guanyin or Tathagata on silk, and worship them day and night. This is the earliest hair embroidery. Due to the selection of materials and themes, not many works of hair embroidery have been passed down. In 1954, Gao Boyu and artists from the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute excavated and rescued the lost craft of hair embroidery, and created the first hair embroidery "Portrait of Qu Yuan" since the founding of the People's Republic of China. In 1970, he was sent to northern Jiangsu and was invited to organize the Dongtai Craft Factory. He then brought the hair embroidery technique to Dongtai and was hailed as the "sower of the wonder of hair embroidery". During the Cultural Revolution, for various reasons, no one did hair embroidery in Suzhou. It was not until the 1980s that Gao Boyu's daughter Zhou Yinghua, feeling the gap in Suzhou hair embroidery, restarted the production of hair embroidery. From the beginning, he was alone to set up an embroidery studio. After years of hard work, hair embroidery has regained its youth in Suzhou and has won many awards in national exhibitions. Her hair embroidery work "Vimalakirti's Teachings" is collected by Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum, and "Song Dynasty Landscape" is collected by Samaranch, the Honorary President of the International Olympic Committee. From 2010 to 2011, she was invited to hold the "Thousands of Silk Feelings Zhou Yinghua Hair Embroidery Art Exchange Tour" in Kaohsiung, Changhua, Taipei, and Tainan, Taiwan, making great contributions to the inheritance and development of Suzhou hair embroidery. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)