This scrupulously reported book traces how one of the world’s largest companies “bound its future” to China. By 2015, Apple ...

A new book recounts the last leg of a 40,000km Silk Road odyssey, revealing the age-old sights and sounds of the Middle ...

The owner of New York-based atelier Doris Leslie Blau talks about some of the most complicated and notable pieces he’s ...

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

Several elegant female figures stand in a graceful procession on a long scroll of painting, their silhouettes connected by ...

In an unprecedented tribute to the art of golden textiles across the centuries and civilisations, Tunisia shines with its cannetille embroidery and golden thread costumes at the Musée du quai ...

Unlike that opening sentence, Ancient India: Living Traditions is a very respectful and carefully managed show of religious art by the British Museum in which, quite honestly, the stirring charisma of ...

BEIJING, May 18 (Xinhua) -- In the predawn hours of Sunday, a commercial flight from Washington D.C. touched down in Beijing carrying an extraordinary cultural payload -- a collection of ancient ...

Threads of eternity: The art of Chinese Knots No exploration of Chinese artistry would ... Recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2008, these woven silk masterpieces date back to the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has deaccessioned from its collection fragments of contested ancient Chinese artefacts known as the Zidanku Silk ...

People have been weaving silk into fabric for ... Moini and his colleagues borrowed a Chinese textile more than 2,000 years old from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a flag from the Smithsonian ...