Tang Red 22 Silk Embroidered Orchid Pearl Tote

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1. Gold Metal Authenticity Card (To Certify A Tang Heritage Original)

2. Unique Engraved Serial Number

3. Complimentary Premium Gift Packaging

In classical Chinese painting, two subjects were considered the most difficult to render with true feeling: plum blossom in winter, and the orchid in bloom. The plum blossom, because it lives in ice and survives. The orchid, because it is alive with a lightness that the brush can easily overstate. This bag holds both in a single composition.

The ground is woven in 冰裂梅花纹 — an ice-crack plum blossom pattern drawn from the crackle glaze of Song Dynasty official kilns, its fractured geometry carrying the quiet weight of something that has endured. Across it, embroidered orchid blooms rise in raised relief: delicate, present, carrying their fragrance in the way the classical poets described — not announced, but inevitable to anyone who comes close.

The 幻舞蝶兰 Motif: Silk Embroidery on an Ancient Ground

The craft applied to this bag is 绫绢刺绣钉珠: Shuanglin Ling Juan silk embroidery with individual bead-setting. The motif is named 幻舞蝶兰, Phantom Dancing Orchid, and it is built from two visual traditions that have never before occupied the same surface. The ice-crack plum ground brings stillness, age, and depth. The embroidered orchid brings movement, life, and light. Together they are described by the craftspeople who made it as: the still meeting the alive.

The embroidery is worked across a ground of 双林绫绢 (Shuanglin Ling Juan), one of China's most storied silk fabrics. What makes it significant:

• Its production in Huzhou, Zhejiang traces back to the Three Kingdoms period, when the region was celebrated across China for its "Wu silk and Shu brocade."
• Among all traditional Chinese silk textiles (绫、罗、绸、缎), 绫绢 ranks first.
• It has been described as thin as a cicada's wing, light as morning mist, and named the "flower of silk craft."
• 绢 was the surface on which China's greatest classical paintings were made, including the 千里江山图.
• 绫 was chosen as the material for the award certificates of both the Beijing Olympics and the Beijing Winter Olympics.
• The "汉贡" brand of Shuanglin 绫绢 has been awarded the Zhejiang Time-Honoured Brand (浙江省老字号) designation by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce.
• The fabric in this bag is produced under the stewardship of 郑小华 (Zheng Xiaohua), director of the Shuanglin Ling Juan factory and a designated National-Level Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Inheritor (国家级非物质文化遗产代表性传承人) for the Shuanglin Ling Juan weaving technique.

Premium Materials

Exterior: Full-grain cowhide leather (牛皮革), supple and structured, forming the body and handles of the tote. It holds its shape across years of carry without stiffness, and softens with age in the way that only genuine leather does.

Embroidery ground: Shuanglin Ling Juan (双林绫绢), a National Intangible Cultural Heritage silk fabric from Huzhou, Zhejiang, produced under the stewardship of ICH inheritor Zheng Xiaohua. Woven in the 冰裂梅花纹 ice-crack plum blossom pattern, luminous and close-woven, with a surface that shifts between silver and ivory in different light.

Lining: Mulberry silk and microfibre (桑蚕丝 + 超纤), soft against the contents, durable in daily use.

Hardware: Gold-tone, including lobster clasp on the adjustable crossbody strap and all fittings. Finished with restraint: present, not declarative.

Product Details

• Dimensions: 220 x 85 x 160mm (total height with handles: 250mm)
• Weight: 0.495kg
• Craft: Shuanglin Ling Juan silk embroidery with individual bead-setting (绫绢刺绣钉珠)
• Motif: 幻舞蝶兰 (Phantom Dancing Orchid) — ice-crack plum blossom ground with raised orchid embroidery and hand-set bead detail
• Exterior: Full-grain cowhide leather with 绫绢 embroidery panel
• Lining: Mulberry silk and microfibre
• Interior: One main compartment, one hidden slip pocket, one zipped hidden pocket
• Carry: Soft double top handles / adjustable crossbody strap / single shoulder
• Strap length: 109–124cm (adjustable)
• Capacity: Phone, power bank, earphones, lipstick, cards and more
• Colourway: Rice white (米白)
• Hardware: Gold-tone

Authenticity & Craft

Every Tang Heritage piece is produced in limited quantities. The embroidery on this bag is not printed, not heat-transferred, not reproduced by automation. It is sewn, bead by bead and stitch by stitch, by craftspeople working within a tradition that has been practised in China for millennia. Each bag is individually inspected before it leaves the workshop. When a design is retired, it does not return.

Every Tang Heritage piece comes with a metal authenticity card and a unique engraved serial number logged in our records, verifiable directly with us at any time.

Shuanglin Ling Juan has been woven in Huzhou for nearly two thousand years. This is simply the form it takes now.

Pre-order Note

This piece is prepared in limited batches to preserve the integrity of its craftsmanship. Your order will be dispatched within 10–12 working days, allowing each bag to be carefully completed and inspected before it reaches you. We believe pieces of this nature are worth the wait.