This paper presents an ethnographic study on intangible cultural heritage of Shidong Miao society in Southeastern Guizhou Province. It aims to describe how Miao women and silversmiths transform themselves from local elites into transmitters of intangible cultural heritage. It also explores how these individuals construct cultural capital through making and promoting embroidery and silver accessories in Shidong Miao society. This paper explores the making of embroidery and silver accessory motifs which are the core traditional handicrafts of Shidong Miao and how, as a means to protect social status and achieve a higher social position, Shidong Miao people are strengthening their publicity and turning the production of intangible cultural heritage into businesses. Making money and training younger generation are two different duties for transmitters. In the production of embroidery, transmitters focus on both making money and transforming the system of transmittance from mother to daughter into a company network. Among silversmiths, transmitters pay more attention to passing techniques to the next generation via a fatherson system and make efforts to contain these skills within a single household. This paper will present four aspects of intangible cultural heritage from Shidong. First, I will briefly recount the history of techniques for “making motifs” and decorative expression in embroidery and on silver accessories in the Shidong Miao tradition. Second, I will examine and analyze a number of embroidery and silver accessory images and explore the changes to motifs to provide an understanding of how classical images have been represented through different periods. Third, I will explore how transmitters portray their social and cultural capital through performance and in social relationships. Lastly, by situating Shidong Miao society within its historical context, I will provide an interpretation of the impact intangible cultural heritage transmitters have on Miao society through their political and economic advantages.