HOHHOT (Xinhua) – When
workmanship of making Tibetan Tangka spread to north China’s Inner
Mongolia region hundreds of years ago, locals innovated it by adding
horse hairs to give the embroideries more texture and make them more
vivid.
China’s only museum for
horse-hair Tangka opened before the New Year holiday in Alxa Left
Banner. The museum shows over 200 Tangka works made by Taogerile, 75,
the leading inheritor of the art in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,
and her disciples.
Tangka often depicts
images, events and figures in the Tibetan epic. Horse-hair Tangka adds
the animal hairs along linellae, a thin fabric, to give the silk
embroidery a stereoscopic perception and make the texture rugged.
Taogerile said she inherited the workmanship from her grandpa and her mother.
Three years ago, the
technique was dying out. Only a few inheritors still had some of the
traditional works at their homes as decorations.
Worried about the dying
culture, Taogerile called her children living abroad back in 2015 and
set up a private workshop to sustain the traditional artistry.
To her surprise, the
complicated embroidery was designated as a poverty-alleviation programme
in the banner, which has seen hundreds of farmers and herdsmen get
involved in the training over the years.
“The art has not only survived but is also revived. New artworks have become more and more aesthetic and valuable,” she said.
So far, more than 400 people have grasped
the traditional artistry. The banner has made the museum a public venue
to sustain the artistry.
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