Measurements:Square: About 16"X 16"
Net weight: 3.4 pound with frame, about 0.5 pound without frame
Origin: Yunnan Province, China.
Year:21th Century
It is a very unique item that took the artist about 6 months to finish it.
We call it double and tranditional embroidered.
Background of Huayao Yi Tribe
HuaYao Yi Girl in Festival Dress
The Yi ethnic group, with a population of 7,762,286,
is mainly distributed over the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou,
and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. There are more than one million
Yis in Sichuan Province, and most of them live in an area south of the Dadu
River and along the Anning River. Traditionally, this area is subdivided into
the Greater Liangshan Mountain area, which lies east of the Anning River and
south of the Huangmao Dyke, and the Lesser Liangshan Mountain area, which
covers the Jinsha River valley and the south bank of the Dadu River.
There are over a million Yis in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture,
which holds the single largest Yi community in China. Yunnan Province has
more than three million Yis, most of whom are concentrated in an area hemmed
in by the Jinsha and Yuanjiang rivers, and the Ailao and Wuliang mountains.
Huaping, Ninglang and Yongsheng in western Yunnan form what is known as the
Yunnan Lesser Liangshan Mountain area. In Guizhou, more than half a million Yis
live in compact communities in Anshun and Bijie. Several thousand Yis live in
Longlin and Mubian counties in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
There are totally about 40 thousands of Huayao yi people living in
Shiping County,Yunnan province, they are famous at their embroidered, songs.
It is the first time that their culuture got introduced to western world.