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At Ta’er Monastery, butter becomes a temporary sculpture. In the Hehuang valleys, painted clay, embroidery and temple murals hold other kinds of time. Northward, Qinghai Lake is crossed by fish and birds; westward, salt works and telescopes bring two different kinds of work to the Qaidam Basin. Farther south, painters, carvers, herders and river patrols bring the headwaters into view through particular places and tasks. Follow the material, the water or the work: each route opens another Qinghai.

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Embroidery Returns to De Mang Village

A family embroidery workshop links inherited motifs with a village workroom in Guinan.

1 min readHainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Original editorial diagram, not a photograph or measured plan: The family company began in 2009, moved its workshop to De Mang in 2015 and developed small embroidered goods in 2017.
Original editorial diagram, not a photograph or measured plan: The family company began in 2009, moved its workshop to De Mang in 2015 and developed small embroidered goods in 2017.

The needle returning home

The 2026 Guinan County profile places embroidery inheritor Lama Yezhong in De Mang Village, Shagou Township. In the story, the needle belongs to a family history: her father ran a tailoring shop, while women in the household had long worked with thread and decorative motifs. The workshop’s later move back to De Mang made the village itself part of the craft’s setting.

From county seat to village workshop

The profile dates the family company to 2009, when Lama and her father established it in Gonghe County. In 2015, they moved the workshop to De Mang. The change placed production closer to home for local embroiderers. The same account describes small embroidered sachets and ornaments developed in 2017, bringing familiar decorative stitches onto objects designed for everyday use. A village workshop, a family trade and a line of small goods now sit within one story of how Guinan embroidery finds places to be made and carried.

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  1. Original editorial diagram, not a photograph or measured plan: The family company began in 2009, moved its workshop to De Mang in 2015 and developed small embroidered goods in 2017.© 2026 IFreeing · Rights information Photo source ↗ Proportionally resized and converted to WebP without cropping. No objects were added, removed or reconstructed.