Thousands of years later, our desire for silk is no less intense. China, the country credited ... making some 800,000 tons of the opulent thread each year. The raw material for silk thread is ...

Dragon robe, China, Qing Dynasty (1644–1911), 19th century, silk with metallic threads, 130.5cm x 198cm, gift of Dr T T Tsui, Tsui Art Foundation Ltd, HKU.T.1996.1096 [Photo/Courtesy of the ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

Like almost all genres of art on the vast land of ... the ancient Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road. In the hands of Chinese artists, the thinnest threads can weave pictures of immense ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third ...

Along with tea and porcelain, silk was one of the main luxury exports from fabled Cathay to the West. Extensive trading links between Europe and China have existed since Roman times, along the ...

Thousands of years later, our desire for silk is no less intense. China, the country credited ... making some 800,000 tons of the opulent thread each year. The raw material for silk thread is ...