The hands behind Sunxi Craft
Made by hand.
Shaped by heritage.
Every Sunxi Craft piece begins with the eye and hands of Jing, our founder and designer. Her work brings Chinese textile traditions, natural materials, and contemporary design into conversation.
A design journey
From London to Beijing
Before founding Sunxi Craft in Beijing, Jing studied design at Central Saint Martins in London. That experience gave her a contemporary design vocabulary, but her attention kept returning to the tactile history of Chinese textiles and the people who make them.
Sunxi Craft grew from that meeting point: a wish to bring inherited techniques and materials into objects that feel intimate, useful, and alive in the present. The aim is not to reproduce the past exactly. It is to give its craft traditions room to be seen, worn, and discussed today.
Materials with a story
Texture, memory, and meaning
Jing selects materials for their visual character, history, and the possibilities they offer in a handmade piece. Each has its own story; none is simply a symbol to be placed into a fixed category.
Song brocade
Patterned silk with a long Chinese textile history. Small remnants can become striking details rather than disappear as offcuts.
Miao embroidery
Rich stitchwork and color invite a closer look at the skill and cultural knowledge carried in textiles.
Natural stones
Variation in color, translucency, and texture makes each stone a material with its own visual presence.
An intentional practice
A small piece can carry a long story
Some Song brocade pieces begin as irregular remnants left after a larger textile is cut. Jing reworks them through wrapping, stitching, and setting, allowing a fragment to become the focus of a new object.
From the first material choice to the final composition, the work is guided by one maker’s decisions. Color, form, and texture are considered together so that the finished piece feels coherent—not assembled from a formula.
The Chinese Five Elements (五行, Wǔxíng) offer another language for exploring relationships among materials and intentions. If you are curious about that background, begin with our guide to the Five Elements.
From our hands to yours
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