Bohai Mohe Embroidery (Heilongjiang Province, China)

Bohai Mohe Embroidery, a craft of the Bohai people, is characterized by special tussah silk and triangular stitching.

This style of embroidery was developed among ethnic Manchu living in the Mudan River basin of Heilongjiang Province in the most northern part of China. “Bohai” refers to indigenous people who lived in the historical region of Manchuria; and “Mohe” was the name of an ancient empire. Working with Tussah silk (rather than the more common mulberry silk), embroiderers use triangular stitches to shape stereoscopic patterns into portraits and landscapes. Popular as gifts and for use on household textiles, Bohai Mohe embroidery is being preserved and developed through commercial industry.
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Thrill of the Grill 2014

Saturday, July 19, noon-4pm

Put the sizzle back in your summer. Tickets are on sale for the fifth annual Danforth Experience Thrill of the Grill and sidewalk sale. Six of the Danforth’s excellent restaurants and food shops are turning up the heat to out sauce, out flavour and out grill each other to claim the title of Toronto’s best rib.

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