Fashion

When I was a student in Beijing in 1987, this shawl cost me $7 from a woman who was paid 50 cents a day to embroider, and who knew when she went blind early, as they all do, that there were no benefits waiting. I loved the beauty she had created in that ugly reality, then I saw her children laughing and realized how much more beautiful the simple things of life were than I had realized.

[Lin]

Beautifully captured. What a touching story.

[Linda Plummer]

Lovely story to go with a lovely shawl. Very pretty.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Incredible work- and to think that here she might be able to charge 10 times that in some posh boutique! Beautiful shawl.

[wendy frost]

Beautiful embroidery and thoughts.

[carol white]

Beautiful embroidery

[summerfield]

beautiful handiwork. the reality of life for some is rather different from us here. the benefits she got would have been far more precious to her than we imagine.