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WANRU ZHAO

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Wanru Zhao is an embroidery designer driven by the beauty of craftsmanship and hand embroidery processes. She excels at transforming daily objects into new patterns through reorganization techniques, combining digital embroidery, smocking, beading, laser cutting, and more. Her innovative designs distinctly focus on embroidery, handcrafting, and visualizing these elements through embroidered fabrics.

Wanru Zhao is an embroidery designer driven by the beauty of craftsmanship and hand embroidery pr...

My Final Major Project draws inspiration from Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and Villa Kerylos in the south of France — spaces shaped by women that show how identity can be expressed through design. Translating the architecture and gardens into textiles, I combine structure, pattern, and multiple techniques to explore women, space, and identity. This project also launches my studio “Needle and Flow,” blending craftsmanship, storytelling, and playful sophistication in embroidery and textile development.

Final work

  • I’ve used a lot of geometric motifs and combined different techniques — such as digital embroidery, digital Cornley, hand weaving, laser cutting.
  • Textile work
  • My Final Major Project draws inspiration from Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and Villa Kerylos in the south of France — spaces shaped by women that show
  • As you step through the gates of the villa, the first thing you see is the orderly design of the gardens. Geometric shapes, symmetry, and a strong sen
  • Left: the pink see-through top. Right: The pink top with a green skirt on a mannequin
  • My Final Major Project draws inspiration from Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and Villa Kerylos in the south of France — spaces shaped by women
  • Textile work
  • Textile skirt
  • My Final Major Project draws inspiration from Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and Villa Kerylos in the south of France — spaces shaped by women that show
  • Textile work
  • My Final Major Project draws inspiration from Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and Villa Kerylos in the south of France — spaces shaped by women that show
  • Textile work

Research and process

  • Collage of image from the villa.
  • Collage of image from the villa.
  • My Final Major Project draws inspiration from Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and Villa Kerylos in the south of France — spaces shaped by women that show
  • Process image
  • Process images
  • My Final Major Project draws inspiration from Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and Villa Kerylos in the south of France — spaces shaped by women that show

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My Final Major Project draws inspiration from Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild and Villa Kerylos in the south of France — spaces shaped by women that show how identity can be expressed through design. Translating the architecture and gardens into textiles, I combine structure, pat...

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