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East West Treasure

Three original works by Tatyana Markovtsev, reborn in silk under the needle of Master Zhu Juncheng. Museum-grade embroidery in editions of seven or fewer — each signed, sealed, and cased for a lifetime.

Conversation with MyselfYi Ran Xiu fine art embroidery · 40 × 55 cm

Framed Conversation with Myself silk embroidery hanging on a dark gallery wall.

Three works in silk

A few expressive lines become tens of thousands of stitches. Each work is a singular collaboration — drawn in America, embroidered in Yangzhou, and framed like the treasure it is.

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Framed Conversation with Myself silk embroidery: two women in red at a bar, a white lily between them.

Conversation with Myself

East–West diptych · Edition of 2

Two elegantly dressed women share wine and quiet talk — until the illusion dissolves and both are one mind in dialogue with itself. A white lily holds the still point. Only two museum masterpieces exist: one for the Eastern Hemisphere, one for the Western.

  • 40 × 55 cm
  • ≥120 stitches per cm²
  • Museum-grade glass
Framed Crane Dance silk embroidery: a woman in a conical hat offers a maple leaf to a golden-winged crane.

Crane Dance

Masterpiece Collection · 1 of 7

A solitary woman offers an autumn maple leaf to a red-crowned crane; hand and beak almost touch. In Eastern tradition the crane carries longevity and wisdom — here it becomes a mirror of the human spirit, suspended in a field of profound black.

  • 40 × 55 cm
  • ≥100 stitches per cm²
  • Museum-grade glass
Framed Owl Queen silk embroidery: a woman in a wide black hat and crimson coat holding an owl.

Owl Queen

Masterpiece Collection · 1 of 7

A regal figure in luminous crimson presents an owl resting on her hand. Neither dominates the composition — Athena’s bird of wisdom becomes an extension of her inner consciousness, keeper of what is left unsaid.

  • 40 × 55 cm
  • ≥100 stitches per cm²
  • Museum-grade glass

Silk becomes line.

Yi Ran Xiu treats thread as a drawing material. Each work depends on hand skill, image interpretation, time, and the changing light of silk — the surface shifts with every hour of the day.

The discipline behind each work

  • Plant-dyed mulberry silk thread
  • Thread split to 1/16 of a strand
  • 100–120 stitches per square centimetre
  • Five or more layered colour passes
  • Solid-wood mortise-and-tenon frame
  • Museum-grade anti-reflective glass
Conversation with Myself taking shape on the loom in the Yangzhou studio.
Colored silk threads laid across an embroidery in progress.
Two embroidery studio practitioners examining silk work on an angled loom.
The studio works directly at the loom, translating edge, tone, and gesture one thread at a time.

Provenance, sewn in.

Each piece leaves the studio with its identity stitched and signed into the silk — and travels in a case built for a treasure.

Close view of the embroidered red studio seal stitched into black silk.

Three marks in the silk

Tatyana’s embroidered signature, the Yi Ran Xiu mark, and the red seal of the national-level Zhu Juncheng studio are stitched into every canvas.

Handwritten inscription on the silk margin recording title, size, artist, and date.

Inscribed by the master

Title, size, and date are written by Master Zhu on the silk margin and preserved beneath the mount — a provenance record inside the work itself.

Framed Owl Queen resting inside a foam-lined aluminium presentation case.

Cased for the journey

Solid camphor-wood backing, museum-grade glass, and a foam-lined aluminium flight case on wheels — delivery treated as part of the work.

Two masters. One shared language.

A minimalist drawing leaves one studio and arrives in another to be rebuilt in silk. Its lines, movement, and purposeful absences become an East–West co-creation that preserves the emotional clarity of the original.

Tatyana Markovtsev standing with the framed Crane Dance artwork.

Tatyana Markovtsev

American minimalist · Feel The Line

Tatyana distills figures into expressive minimalist compositions, built from a few carefully chosen lines and purposeful absences. Her original works are the blueprints of this collection: each silk piece begins with her drawing and is reinterpreted stitch by stitch.

Master Zhu Juncheng signing finished embroidery in his studio.

Master Zhu Juncheng

Master of Arts and Crafts · One Nature Embroidery, Yangzhou

Master Zhu leads the national-level Zhu Juncheng studio, where he developed Yi Ran Xiu — a free “random stitch” that lets silk behave like ink. Under his needle, Tatyana’s line gains depth, light, and time.

Studio film

Film in preparation

A quiet record of the studio will appear here.

A white-gloved studio practitioner pressing the Crane Dance silk embroidery.

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