Qiao Shuang has an M.A. in textile design and currently teaches embroidery, patchwork, hand printing, fiber art and textile design at Nanjing University of the Arts. Her studies and career have brought her all over the world, including as a visiting scholar at Kunsthochschule Kassel of Germany, a visit the Ecole nationale superieure des Arts Decoratifs as a scholarship winner, and as a student under Okamoto Youko—a well-known Japanese textile artist. She has her own patchwork design studio in China.