During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1643) it was said that the wife of a man called Ku Shou-chien was a skilled needleworker who would not take up her needle and thread in cold, hot or stormy weather.
清代（尤其乾隆一朝），由於享國時久、國勢昌隆，刺繡也像其他藝術一樣非常發達。