Baisha Naxi Embroidery Institute is a good reason to linger in Baisha rather than treating the village as a quick add-on to Lijiang. The institute presents Naxi embroidery as a living craft, with workrooms and displays that show the precision behind the region's textile traditions.
It is more interesting if you care about craft than if you are simply shopping for souvenirs. Pair it with Baisha's old lanes and murals, and you get a quieter cultural day than in Lijiang's crowded old town, with Jade Dragon Snow Mountain often sitting above the village in clear weather.