About the Author

Young Yang Chung, world-renowned master embroiderer, was born and raised in Korea, where in the mid-1960s she founded The International Embroidery School and established Korea's first vocational embroidery centre. Chung is a leading scholar and expert in the field of East Asian textile arts, and her book The Art of Oriental Embroidery (1979) became the first English-language reference devoted exclusively to the origins and development of silk embroidery in East Asia.