Jerry Zbiral, a free-lance photographer who has recorded the home life and rituals of Chicago`s Hmong community, says, ”Before the Hmong left Laos, the only pandau was cross-stitch and applique.

And then, a lot of the work that we do is in tradition with American embroidery, too, American cross-stitch. But the funny thing is a lot of Hmong embroidery is actually embroidery, but there's a ...

Thao showed her daughter, stitch by stitch, how to craft traditional Hmong-style clothing just like her mother did decades earlier in Laos. For hours and hours, Yang practiced embroidering socks ...

In Hmong fashion, every stitch tells a story. “Back in the day, we went to sew these by hand and if you had money or coins, it represented wealth and families,” Lor said.

Most of the motifs that appear in traditional Hmong embroidery are inspired by nature and are associated with animals. A series of swirls facing each other, for example, is called "elephant foot ...

I worry that amid my people’s invisibility in a history fraught with war, persecution and displacement, the story of Hmong dolls will disappear too.

Hmong traditional dating games were played during the New Year Festival over the weekend. This involved men and women each standing in a line on opposite sides of a hall, facing each other. The ...