Sani women are expert at spinning, weaving, and embroidering.
Take the double-face embroidered"Cat",representative work of Suzhou embroidery, for example,the artist splits the hair-thin coloured silk thread into filaments-half, quarter, 1/12 or even 1 /48 of its original thickness--and uses these in embroidering concealing in the process the thousands of ends and joints and making them disappear as if by magic.
In ancient China,ever since the matrilineal society was replaced by a patrilineal one,the social division of labor has been based on men ploughing and women weaving; the tradition of embroidering shoes has been passed down from one generation to another by Chinese women.
