Hmong Textile Art consists of traditional and modern textile arts and crafts produced by the Hmong people. Traditional Hmong textile examples include hand-spun hemp cloth production, basket weaving, batik dyeing, and a unique form of embroidery known as flower cloth or Paj Ntaub in the Hmong language RPA.

2025年2月23日 · The Hmong are an ethnic group with deep roots in China and Southeast Asia, celebrated worldwide for their intricate textile art and oral traditions. Though primarily residing in China, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, many Hmong migrated to Western countries after 20th-century conflicts.

Like all art, Hmong paj ntaub (flower cloth) is inspired by their environment. The motifs and symbols represent everything from nature to architecture, and one can only imagine the intimate relationship between the Hmong and the land they lived on when it is featured on elaborate and arduous embroidery.

Paj ntaub is used to decorate traditional Hmong clothing and are valued as works of textile art. The cloths presented here come from two sources: Flower Cloth of the Hmong, Denver, CO: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1985, and Joan Randall, ed., Art of the Hmong-Americans, Davis, CA: C.N. Gorman Museum (UC Davis), 1985.

1990年5月13日 · All of the textiles and costume in this exhibition were produced by Hmong refugees from Laos, in Laos, Thailand, or the United States, and show the effects of the difficult transition this courageous people have been making in the last twenty years of upheaval and resettlement in a new and vastly different country.

2017年7月7日 · The Hmong, historically a migratory people, developed portable cultural expressions such as textile art and jewelry-making to accompany them wherever they traveled. Paj ntaub (flower cloth) showcases embroidery and reverse appliqué techniques to create symbolic geometric and organic designs that reflect a deep animist spirituality.

2019年12月2日 · In our reading of their work, Mrs Lee and other Hmong story cloth artists create histories, narratives, protests and laments. They create memories: sewing a landscape and touching again the land they once called home, weaving their own blood, tears, and hopes into a fabric strong enough to withstand whatever changes the future may bring.

Hmong Paj Ntaub: A Comparison Of Design Motifs Color, Size, And Ornamental Construction, Techniques Between 1977-1979 And 1981-1983 (Laos, Thailand, Michigan), MA dissertation.

Paj ntaub is used to decorate traditional Hmong clothing and are valued as works of textile art. The cloths presented here come from two sources: Flower Cloth of the Hmong, Denver, CO: Denver Museum of Natural History, 1985, and Joan Randall, ed., Art of the Hmong-Americans, Davis, CA: C.N. Gorman Museum (UC Davis), 1985.

Hmong textile art (RPA: Paj ntau or Paj ntaub, or "flower cloth" in the Hmong language; sometimes transliterated as pa ntau) consists of textile arts traditionally practiced by Hmong people.