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Hong Kong Kwan Kwa Wedding Costume Making Technique
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- Kwan kwa wedding costume with dragon and phoenix designs
Kwan kwa wedding costume with dragon and phoenix designs fully embroidered with silk loops to densely cover the base fabric.
- Embroidered panels
Two pairs of embroidered panels on the front of the kwa also known as "gown pieces".
- Embroidery on the kwan kwa
The phoenix is embroidered in gold stack embroidery, and the auspicious clouds are embroidered in circled gold metallic embroidery.
- Embroidered parts of the kwan kwa wedding costume
The embroidery is wound with gold thread to create the desired shape and secured with coloured thread.
- Kwan kwa are decorated with crystals
Kwan kwa are decorated with crystals.
- A top of "the queen of kwan kwa"
A top of "the queen of kwan kwa".
- A skirt of "the queen of kwan kwa"
A skirt of "the queen of kwan kwa".
- A top of "the king of kwan kwa"
A top of "the king of kwan kwa".
- A skirt of "the king of kwan kwa"
A skirt of "the king of kwan kwa".
- Iron storage box for kwan kwa wedding costume
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.