Tiaohua (挑花) and related picked-weave textiles in which supplementary threads create motifs as part of the woven structure rather than as surface printing or embroidery.
c. 1940s–1960s · Cotton
A rare Shanghai-area tiaohua cloth in which tiny four-petal flowers are woven directly into a deep blue checked ground rather than printed or embroidered on the surface.
These groups bring together descriptions from the textile records. Regional attributions and technical identifications may be provisional; open an individual record for its evidence and attribution notes.
