About Us
Three Chinese Traditional Technologies: Suembroidery, Chanhua, and Ronghua
Our Technologies
They are our Intangible Cultural Heritages
It is believed that Su-embroidery originated during the Three Kingdoms period (around 220–280 AD), when women in the Wu region produced embroidered garments and textiles for royal families and aristocrats. After over 2,000 years of evolution, Zhenhu is now home to a famous street called Xiupin Jie—literally “Embroidery Street”—where most of the local silk and embroidery businesses are based. At its peak, Zhenhu was said to have had over 3,000 skilled embroiderers.
Chanhua and Ronghua are two intangible cultural heritages were developed to prevent the wasting of the extra silk threads. When creating large silk pieces, artists must prepare at least 5% more silk threads and pieces to allow for unforeseen accidents. However, due to subtle colour differences between dye lots and variations in shape and width, any leftover silk materials typically cannot be reused in new artworks. Transforming these precious remnants into simple, elegant jewellery is the best way to honour their value and purpose.
Fun Fact
It's more of a guy thing
Due to long-standing cultural traditions and gender-based roles, most people working with silk in Zhenhu are women. This has led to a rather unusual domestic lifestyle: women take on the external work of embroidery, while men handle domestic responsibilities.
Because silk threads are extremely delicate, and the art of thread-splitting embroidery requires smooth and soft hands, embroiderers must avoid manual labour that might roughen their skin. In fact, Zhenhu is famously known for its extraordinary consumption of hand cream—reportedly by the ton each year! As a result, while women devote themselves to embroidery, men are typically responsible for cooking, cleaning, and childcare. This gender role reversal may be one of the most distinctive and rare lifestyle patterns in the world.
Our teams and Products
Special handcrafted silk jewellery and Artworks
Designers and Team Members:
Yang Bai, yuying sun, xiaona chen, mei yin, yujie niu, Qiuyi zhong, yalan fu, jinke zhang, xiumu ci, zhe zhang, shan ye, mi jian, lanshan ge, mingzhen zhu, huanhuan leng, xiaoning chen, jiali shi, anja xue, ningxin ma, yanhong chen, li zhang, yan li, ting shi, yishan han, yang yang, jinjing wang, zhiyan jiang, yuanyang, ji, qi zheng, wenhong wu, xiaojuan gu, jiyan he, yan yue, qinhua yao, xiaoli qian, meiying cai, jiayun zhu
Our collections span silk jewellery, home art pieces, and versatile ornaments, blending delicate textures with playful versatility. Within our Chuanhua and Ronghua series, you’ll find earrings, studs, brooches, hair clips, and claw clips, each handmade and coated with a nano waterproof layer, making them resistant to unexpected rain. Our earrings are so lightweight that you can wear them all day without pressure or discomfort.
Our Silk Jewellery and Double-sided Embroidery Silk Ornaments are designed to be more than decorative — they can be lightly perfumed, holding your chosen fragrance for up to two weeks, creating a subtle sensory experience wherever they are placed. These ornaments can be hung on a car, wardrobe, wall, or even a Christmas tree, or they can be used as bookmarks.
Some pieces within the Chuanhua and Ronghua series are gently adjustable, allowing you to create your own personal styling by repositioning certain elements — an invitation to express creativity and make each piece uniquely yours.
Customization orders
We accept customization orders!
Please be aware, at Soussans, every piece is entirely handcrafted by a small team of artisans who have inherited their skills through generational learning — mothers teaching daughters, masters guiding apprentices.
Because of this traditional approach, we don’t produce formal design drafts the way industrial studios do. Also, as every item is made by hand with great care, some pieces may require a longer production time, especially for custom orders.