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Twined flowers by Pei-Ying Lin decorate the Taipei Olympic uniforms
by Modem – Posted May 06 2024
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The Taipei Fashion Week FW 24 unveiled the uniforms for the Taiwan delegation for the Paris Olympics. The blue uniforms, designed by Justin Chou, incorporate works by Taiwanese artists, including Paul Chiang, Lin Kuo-ching, Yen Yu-ying, and Lin Pei-Ying, hand-twined flower details.

The uniforms were produced in collaboration with Taiwanese textile companies New Wide Group, Grand Yi Design, and Junmay Label, all known for their sustainability practices. The uniforms focus on sustainability, fashion, crafts, and arts, representing the spirit of Taiwanese style rich in local symbolism, and were made using "carbon capture" technology. Twined hand-twined flower craftsman decorating the lapel of the suit jackets realized by Lin Pei-Ying, an artist and designer from Taiwan, are plum blossoms, Taiwan’s national flower, and nanohana flowers.

The traditional twined flower is one of the most delicate techniques in Taiwanese culture and is a special handicraft in the folk society of Taiwan. Each bride must wear it when she is going to marry. Twined flower craft is mostly distributed in the Hakka region of northern Taiwan. This special traditional handcraft is often used to exhibit the needlework of female skill, the makers must have extreme patience and attention as it takes considerable time and effort in production, resulting in high labor costs and complex processing techniques.

The traditional craft of creating twined flowers blends skills like cutting, winding, twisting, and embroidery with silk threads, symbolizing Taiwanese cultural expressions of blessings and festivities.

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