一般来说，制作已经新娘礼服需要花费一个年轻苗族女子一年的剩余时间，因此这是她生命的艺术品。
A wedding gown of Miao bride is made in five stages.
苗族的新娘礼服制作有五个步骤：
The first is that of selecting fabrics and a dress maker, buying embroidery needles and threads and tailoring the cloth.
第一步：选择面料与制作人，购买绣针与纺线，裁剪布料。
The second is deciding a pattern, which gives Miao women the chance to display their creative aesthetic skills.
第二步：选择图案，这是展现苗族女性独创性审美技艺的机会。
The third, and most laborious stage is the embroidery itself, which broadly consists of flat and relief stitches, and plaited crape and patch print works. A wedding gown thus constitutes a work of embroidered art.
第三步，也是最费劲儿的一步，就是刺绣本身，其大致由平针与浮针组成，编制黑纱且打上补丁掩盖手工痕迹。因此新娘礼服就是由刺绣工艺所组成。
The fourth stage is hemming; the fifth making the lining.
第四步是卷边；第五步是制线。
It generally takes a young Miao woman a year to embroider her wedding gown in the spare time that she has. It is thus her life’s art work.
