Wu Lingshu was born into a family of blue-calico craftspeople in 1988. Wu's family has been making blue calico in Nantong, in east China's Jiangsu Province, since the Qing Dynasty. She is the daughter of Wu Yuanxin, a national-level representative inheritor of Nantong's craft of blue-calico printing and dyeing. Wu Lingshu believes blue calico will only gain lasting vitality when it meets people's daily needs and, especially, when it becomes an integral part of their lives. As such, she has insisted on drawing her inspiration from traditional skills and patterns, while adapting them to meet the needs of modern people. She has transformed the traditional, single-sided printing into a double-sided printing, and that has greatly expanded the application of blue calico in high-end apparel and household products. (Photos from Interviewee, Source: Women of China)