This is the "Hundred Children Garment" (Hyakushi), a traditional Miao ethnic costume. It is a special children's garment tailored for girls around one year old. The small human motifs embroidered all over represent the wish of the mother and family for the child to be watched over by many lives and to grow up healthy. It is said that the Hundred Children Garment was made with better thread and cloth, and with more and finer embroidery, in homes with more financial means. This garment is also a piece that spared no effort and thought. I myself love traditional embroidery very much, and everything here has been selected with my own eyes. Just looking at them calms my mind, and I feel a strange sense of healing. Embroidery, I believe, is a vessel for conveying blessings, for wearing the traces of time, and for housing stories and ancestral symbols, a place to entrust the spirit. Therefore, this is not just clothing or a product. ✧ Why did this garment stay with the child until their coming-of-age ceremony? It is a piece that quietly leaves such a question. As a "heart amulet" to spread out and look at by the bedside. As a presence for a woman living alone to embrace herself. I would be happy if this embroidery could gently stay by your side. A suggestion for a small "ritual" (recommended at the end of the text) ・Make tea at night and quietly spread out the embroidery ・Look for a "protective pattern" that you need right now ・Place a wish together with this embroidery I think of embroidery as a friend who is always there for you.