Guizhou is an idea travel destination for ethnic group textiles. If you have interests in tribal textiles, you may look for a professional travel company to arrange your Guizhou tour to see these textiles, especially Miao's textiles and Miao's embroidery techniques and art crafts. A professional guide can help you learn these embroidery techniques very quickly, of course you have to pay more to these professional companies, their price is not low as the other common company's, it's like the real Nike shoes and fake Nike shoes sold in two different price in China.
Before or after your Guizhou trip, if you want to learn more about Guizhou textiles, you can try to look for some Guizhou textile books for the information you want, and there are some really good Guizhou textile books, the books below are the recommended ones for you, the authors of these books are the best experts on Guizhou textiles, hope these books are helpful to you.

Book 1: A Picture Album of China's Miao Costumes and Ornaments
Author, Photographer:
Wu Shizhong
Mr Wu spent more than 30 years to discover the Miao in Guizhou, Yunnan, Shichuan, Hunan and Hainan and published this excellent book. In this book, one can see 173 sub branch of the Miao's different festival costumes, he named these different branches according to the location-a model town or village, I myself is Miao too, I think his classification is very scientific, Mr. Wu is a real expert on Miao costumes, I've learned too much from this book, this is a highly recommend book.

Book 2: One Needle, One Thread
Author, Photographer:
Tomoko Torimaru
I'm not familiar with this author, so I don't give any detailed introduction to her. I've read this book carefully, this is an excellent book on Guizhou Miao embroidery techniques, the information is very detailed, from the point of mine, I think she is the best field study expert on Guizhou Miao embroidery techniques.
Of course I heard there is one lady from Japan called " Big bird", she is also an excellent textile expert, unfortunately I didn't have a chance to read her works. Hope I can have a chance to read her works in the future, and I will put on her works on my web site.

Book 3: The Zeng's Collection and Appreciation Ethnic Miao Embroidery
Author: Zeng Xianyang, Zeng Li
Photographer: Zeng Xianyang
Mr. Zeng Xianyang is an excellent Guizhou Miao costume expert and photographer, he started to research Miao embroidery and Miao costumes since 1976, and he already published several works on Guizhou Miao costumes and textiles. Zeng Li is Mr. Zeng's daughter. In this book, Mr. Zeng and Mrs. Zeng gavee interesting information on Miao embroidery techniques and explanations for different patterns. Unfortunately, Mr. Zeng died a few years ago, he has devoted all his life to Miao textiles and costumes, he is a respected real expert. Fortunately his daughter-Zeng Li took his job and continues this hard and interesting work, and their new museum of Guizhou Miao textiles and costumes was opened several years ago in Baiyun district. If you get a chance, the museum is really, really worth a visit.

Book 4: The Traditional Miao Wax Printing
Author:
Yang Wengbing, Yang Ce
Mr. Yang Wengbing was born in a Miao silver smith family in Kongba, he began to research Guizhou minority art crafts since 1986 and published some books. So far there are not many good books on Guizhou batiks, you can get some useful information from this book.