Take Two Different Art Disciplines,

and add them together, 

in this case an embroider and a painter, photographs XQ Dalat, which was founded by Hoang Le Xuan, a talented artisan who inherited ancient embroidery techniques from her family, and her husband, painter Vo Van Quan, 

since it was founded, in 1996, XQ Dalat has been dedicated to taking traditional Vietnamese silk embroidery to a whole new level,

the unprecedented level of realism and detail displayed in the embroidered masterpieces of XQ Dalat catapulted the small family business to national and later, international success, today, the company employs over 3,000 talented embroiders and caters to clients from all over the world,

today, XQ has lots of competition from other embroidery studios in Vietnam, but most are simple imitators, so the company remains the premiere embroidery studio in the Asia country,

 artisans from all over the world come here to learn the secrets and techniques that create painting-like results with the use of thread and needle,

as these videos show,

looking at the embroidery produced by the artisans of XQ Dalat, does away with any words to describe how amazing the pieces are.