HAN SHAN
Collections

The First Pool

Twenty-three dials in the first pool. Each is hand-embroidered in Suzhou silk — five to fifteen days apiece — and each edition is numbered, capped by what the atelier can actually stitch.

Masterpieces

3 pieces

The paintings the world already loves — drawn again, in silk.

Starry Night — Han Shan
No. 01

Starry Night

The most recognisable night in art, swirling again in silk thread.

The Great Wave — Han Shan
No. 02

The Great Wave

Hokusai's wave — with foam you can finally feel.

Ono Waterfall — Han Shan
No. 03

Ono Waterfall

A vertical river of silk, falling the way Hokusai drew it.

Deep Space

2 pieces

The furthest light we know, at the smallest scale we make.

Pillars of Creation — Han Shan
No. 04

Pillars of Creation

Webb's star nursery, light-years tall, embroidered to fit a wrist.

Horsehead Nebula — Han Shan
No. 05

Horsehead Nebula

A silhouette of dust a thousand light-years away — negative space only silk could shade.

A Light in the Dark

4 pieces

One light in a black field. Silk's own sheen does the rest.

Solar Corona — Han Shan
No. 06

Solar Corona

Totality, 2024 — a black disc wearing a crown of silver thread.

Moonlit Wake — Han Shan
No. 07

Moonlit Wake

Moonlight broken on open water — the Suzhou 'water-road' stitch at its purest.

The Angler's Lamp — Han Shan
No. 08

The Angler's Lamp

Ninety percent darkness, one cold light, and a fish you almost see.

Radial Gills — Han Shan
No. 09

Radial Gills

A glowing mushroom's gills radiate like hour markers — nature drew this dial first.

Memento Mori · The Nocturnals

6 pieces

Moths, owls and the worm Ouroboros — the collection's night shift.

Death's-Head Hawkmoth — Han Shan
No. 10

Death's-Head Hawkmoth

A moth that wears a skull; a watch that was counting the hours anyway.

Ouroboros · Rose — Han Shan
No. 11

Ouroboros · Rose

The snake eats its tail around a deep-red rose — eternity, with thorns.

Ouroboros · Skull — Han Shan
No. 12

Ouroboros · Skull

The alchemical emblem, complete: the serpent's ring, the skull at its heart.

Barn Owl — Han Shan
No. 13

Barn Owl

A heart-shaped face out of the dark, watching back.

Great Horned Owl — Han Shan
No. 14

Great Horned Owl

Ear tufts up, golden eyes level — the night has a landlord.

Raven — Han Shan
No. 15

Raven

Black on black, readable only by the sheen of the stitch.

Neo Deco

2 pieces

Jazz-age geometry, warmed by thread.

Deco Sunrise — Han Shan
No. 16

Deco Sunrise

The sunburst every collector knows — recognise it, then realise it is stitched.

Deco Fanfare — Han Shan
No. 17

Deco Fanfare

Peacock scales couched in gold; turn the wrist and they light one by one.

Rococo

2 pieces

Pearls and gilt plaster — ornament at its most restrained.

Marie's Pearls — Han Shan
No. 18

Marie's Pearls

Seed-stitched pearls on mist-blue satin — a curtain of small moons.

Gilded Plaster — Han Shan
No. 19

Gilded Plaster

White on white with gold acanthus — a palace ceiling, worn on the wrist.

The Field Guide

3 pieces

Audubon's plates, re-drawn for the wrist.

Northern Cardinal — Han Shan
No. 20

Northern Cardinal

Seven states claim him as their own. We just stitched the red.

Hummingbird, Hovering — Han Shan
No. 21

Hummingbird, Hovering

The smallest fighter in the garden, held mid-hover from Audubon's Plate 47.

The Gorget — Han Shan
No. 22

The Gorget

A hummingbird's throat, magnified — iridescent scales only thread could tile.

Chinoiserie

1 pieces

The West dreamed China for three hundred years. Now the dream answers in silk.

Willow Pattern — Han Shan
No. 23

Willow Pattern

The blue-and-white plate in every grandmother's cupboard — an English fantasy of China, embroidered by Chinese hands.