Suzhou Special Products

Handicrafts and silk are the most outstanding native produce of Suzhou. Suzhou's arts & crafts represent a unique cultural style and workmanshop developed over a thousand years under the influence of the Wu Cultrure and the skills of generations of artisans. Most representative of Suzhou style are embroidery, fans, national musical instruments, scroll mounting, lanterns, mahogany furniture, jade carving, silk tapestry, traditional painting pigments of Jiangsixutang Studio, THE New Year's wood-block prints of Taohuawu Studio, etc. Marked by exquisite craftmanship and elegant colour, all the products are warmly acclaimed in China
and overseas.By inheriting the workmanship and elegant designs of the traditional handicrafts, the silk industry of Suzhou has developed a modern mass production scale and become the mainstay of China's silk export with superior quality and output. It is also the most notable item in tourist shopping.

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