Amazing Skill with the Needle - Silk Embroidery Paintings (North Korea)

North Korean women producing embroidery at Mansudae Art Studio.

Pyongyang North Korea DPRK Works are usually made by more than one artist (practically all women) using silk threads because of its strength.

 "Subjects are taken from nature, with flowers being the most common. Two particularly popular subjects are the flower named after the founder of the country, Kim Il Sung (Kimilsungia, a hybrid cultivar of orchid developed in Indonesia), and that named after the current leader Kim Jong Il (Kimjongilia, a hybrid cultivar of tuberous begonia developed in Japan)."

Here is a video of it in action