Hong Kong Kwan Kwa Wedding Costume Making Technique

Kwan kwa wedding costume with dragon and phoenix designs fully embroidered with silk loops to densely cover the base fabric. Two pairs of embroidered panels on the front of the kwa also known as "gown pieces". The phoenix is embroidered in gold stack embroidery, and the auspicious clouds are embroidered in circled gold metallic embroidery. The embroidery is wound with gold thread to create the desired shape and secured with coloured thread. Kwan kwa are decorated with crystals.

A top of "the queen of kwan kwa". A skirt of "the queen of kwan kwa". A top of "the king of kwan kwa". A skirt of "the king of kwan kwa". In the past, the embroidery company would wrap the kwan kwa in sorbet paper and store them in a iron box to prevent the gold and silver threads from the oxidising. Due to the lack of iron, the production of iron boxes has been stopped since the 1990s.