Handicrafts workshop rekindles interest in cultural life of ancient women

Another was given by Xiao Yumei, a third-generation inheritor of the diancui technique in Beijing. She showed how to produce the dazzling works by attaching dyed feathers onto metal works with great delicacy. Head ornaments made with this craft used to adorn women living in the imperial court and of aristocracy, and fine examples of such are in the collection of the Palace Museum.