Guizhou · China
One sourcing gateway to Guizhou's craft traditions — silver filigree, indigo batik, Liezhi rag weaving and Miao embroidery, sourced directly from master artisans in their home villages, with documented provenance.
From the mountains of southwest China
Guizhou holds the densest concentration of living textile and metal craft traditions in China. We bring them to museum stores, boutiques and interiors — never as souvenirs, always as the museum-quality work they are.
Collection I
Fine silver is shaped into graphic earrings, adjustable rings and sculptural necklaces, combining careful hand-finishing with a contemporary design language.
999 Silver · Filigree
Twisted-wire openwork; the butterfly is a Miao ancestral motif.
999 Silver · Filigree
Hand-welded lattice of drawn wire, no two identical.
999 Silver · Hammered
Solid drawn wire, twisted and hammer-finished.
999 Silver · Filigree
A week's work in wire; the collection's centrepiece.
Silver prepared → elements shaped by hand → joined and assembled → surface finished → polished and inspected.
Collection II
Guizhou wax-resist batik: molten beeswax drawn freehand with a copper knife onto cotton, then dyed in vats of natural indigo. Where the wax cracks, the dye seeps in — the fine veining prized by collectors.
Indigo Textile · Mixed Trims
Assorted bag forms for wholesale review.
Indigo-Patterned Textile
Relaxed silhouettes with patterned textile panels.
Indigo Textile · Wax-Resist
Layered feather lines create a bold focal point.
Indigo Textile · Wax-Resist
Radiating floral forms repeat across deep indigo.
Beeswax heated over charcoal → drawn with the copper la dao knife → repeated indigo dips → wax boiled away. Dye from indigo plants grown and fermented in Danzhai.
Collection III
Liezhi gives worn cotton cloth a second life: fabric is torn into narrow strips, joined by hand and woven through a cotton warp. Variations in the reclaimed cloth create irregular bands of colour, so every finished textile carries traces of its earlier life.
Reclaimed Cotton · Handwoven
Irregular stripes and blocks bring woven texture to interiors.
Reclaimed Cotton · Handwoven
Compact tactile pieces with varied textile fragments.
Reclaimed Cotton · Handwoven
Selected woven surfaces for display and interior projects.
Cloth is washed → torn into narrow strips → joined into continuous weft → handwoven across a cotton warp → washed and finished. Irregular colour shifts make every piece one of a kind.
Collection IV
Miao embroidery spans dozens of stitch techniques, each carried down through generations of women. Its flagship here is tin embroidery from Jianhe — the only textile tradition in the world that embroiders with strips of metallic tin.
Tin Embroidery · Jianhe
Reflective geometric surfaces across panels and accessories.
Embroidered Textile · Framed
Dense colour and geometry in a gallery-ready format.
Embroidered Textile · Pieced Cloth
A compact composition for tabletop or framed display.
Embroidered Textile · Framed
Varied formats prepared for retail and interior display.
For tin embroidery: tin ingots are hammered to foil, cut into millimetre strips, folded and hooked through pre-stitched cotton grids — one strip at a time.
Provenance
No trading companies, no middlemen. Every piece is commissioned in the village where its tradition lives, and travels with a card naming its maker.
Longli
Founding home
Where our founder grew up — and where every sourcing journey begins.
Leishan
Silver filigree
Silversmithing villages where wire has been drawn for four centuries.
Danzhai
Indigo batik
Indigo grown, fermented and vat-dyed within one valley.
Huishui
Liezhi weaving
Reclaimed cloth is torn into strips and rewoven by hand into one-of-a-kind textiles.
Jianhe
Tin embroidery
The world's only tradition of embroidering with metallic tin.
Wu Shengbao
Silversmith · Leishan
Third-generation filigree master; learned to draw wire at his father's bench at twelve.
Yang Xiuying
Batik Master · Danzhai
Draws entirely from memory — patterns her grandmother sang to her as dye recipes.
Pan Xiumei
Tin Embroiderer · Jianhe
One of fewer than two hundred practitioners of tin embroidery left in the world.
Trade
We work with museum stores, boutiques and interior designers across North America and Europe. Every account receives artisan provenance documentation for retail storytelling.
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About
Qian Heritage was founded by a daughter of Longli County, Guizhou — raised among the drum towers and dye vats that the rest of the world has only recently discovered.
She works directly with master silversmiths, batik artisans and embroiderers in their home villages: commissioning at fair prices set with the makers, documenting each tradition as it is practised today, and carrying the work — carefully — to museum stores and studios abroad.
"These crafts don't need rescuing. They need a market that respects them."