History: located at the estuary of the Taizhou Bay, Jiaojiang boasts its developed port and wharfs in the contemporary and modern eras, which facilitated the introduction of techniques by Western nuns as well as the establishment of embroidery workshops and plants by the merchants of Shanghai and Ningbo. Besides, the plain’s watercourse and the ports are conducive to the concentration and distribution of products.

According to Jiaojiang Annals, in the 32nd year of Emperor Guangxu’s Reign in the Qing Dynasty (1906), French nuns came to Jiaojiang for teaching the orphan girls at Catholic Church’s Orphanage about the embroidery workmanship of tablecloth and “Longlindang”. Firstly, upon the trial production, the embroidery works including tablecloth and paraments were sent to the western churches. After establishment of the Republic of China, the mass production of silk embroidered clothes, bead-decorated bobbinet, longuette gradually began and the embroidery products were spread over the public. Later, some Shanghai-based companies successively built embroidery workshops and plants in Jiaojiang. Before the Anti-Japanese War (1935), the embroidery production embraced its first golden phase: there were over 8,000 female embroidery practitioners in Haimen, with the annual output of 160,000 embroidery products. The 2nd golden phase was the 1970s and 1980s after the Liberation and Haimen became one of the domestic key producers of cutwork embroidery product. After 1990, the private embroidery enterprises became a leader in the embroidery industry.

Process Flow: design of style and pattern → scabbling → drawing → embroidered by hands → examination → cutting and sewing → finished products

Material Quality: 100% real silk or 100% linen

Historical document: according to Jiaojiang Annals, in 1986, the “Dafugui” full-cutting real silk folded-sleeve cheongsam made by Taizhou Embroidery Plant won the golden medal at the 6th Spring Fair, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.