Guizhou · China
One sourcing gateway to Guizhou's craft traditions — silver filigree, indigo batik, maple-resin dyeing 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
Miao silver filigree begins as 999 silver, drawn by hand into wire finer than thread, then twisted and welded into openwork forms. It is the same technique family once reserved for imperial court metalwork — kept alive in the villages of southeast Guizhou.
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.
Ingot → hand-drawn wire → twisting → shaping → welding → polishing. Each piece ships with a provenance card naming its silversmith and village.
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.
Cotton · Natural Indigo
Bird-and-spiral motifs drawn freehand in beeswax.
Cotton · Natural Indigo
Interior-scaled patterns; a staple for designers.
Cotton · Natural Indigo
Continuous hand-drawn border, dyed twelve times.
Cotton · Leather Trim
Batik panel, museum-store bestseller format.
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
Fengxiang dyeing is one of China's rarest resist techniques: maple-tree resin blended with butter replaces wax, flowing from the brush in finer, more fluid lines. The result is often called "blue-and-white porcelain on cloth."
Cotton-Silk · Maple Resin
Brush-drawn resin lines, impossibly fine.
Framed · Maple Resin
Gallery-framed textile art, edition-numbered.
Framed · Maple Resin
The porcelain comparison, earned on cloth.
Maple resin is tapped, blended with butter, and painted with a brush rather than a knife — allowing curves batik wax cannot hold. Practised by only a handful of families.
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 on Indigo · Jianhe
Metal, stitched. Geometry that reads like moonlight.
Silk Thread · Framed
Dragon and butterfly-mother motifs in split-silk stitch.
Appliqué · Leather Trim
Vintage embroidered panels, remounted for daily use.
Silk Thread · Mounted
A single collar can hold six stitch techniques.
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
Fengxiang dyeing
Home of the maple-resin resist, held by a handful of families.
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."