was presented to the Queen by an overseas Wenzhou-origin Chinese in April 1995. Wenzhou Hair Embroidery artist embroidered the portraits for Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto and the King and Queen of Nepal in 1996. They also were taken abroad by President Jiang Zemin as gifts during his visit to the four countries of South Asia in November 1996. The embroidery work “Yeltsin” was given to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin as a gift from President Jiang Zemin on June 6, 2002.

The present story

Wenzhou's first colored hair embroidery work

  At an accidental opportunity, Meng Yongguo met two female teachers from the Amsterdam Art Institute in the Netherlands. With his professional sensitivity, he felt that the blond hair of the two ladies must be good materials for hair embroidery. Later, with the help of his mentor Wei Jingxian, he got the blonde hairs. After six months of hard embroidering, the “Mona Lisa”, his first colored embroidery work, also the first colored embroidery work in Wenzhou, was successfully completed.

Innovation is the best way to inheriting the hair embroidery art

  After successfully creating the first colored embroidery work, Meng Yongguo continued to pick colored hair embroidery as his own research direction, which ushered in the diversified development of Wenzhou Hair Embroidery. Meng Yongguo profoundly felt that the traditional hair embroidery method was too simple to achieve the desired effect that he wanted during his creation of "Einstein". He tentatively applied the "disordered needle method" created by the modern embroidery craftsman Yang Shouyu into his hair embroidery work. Afterwards, Meng Yongguo created a new "bottom-color complement method" to make up for the limitations of the colored hair embroidery. In addition, he also innovated the