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 ...

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 ...

Two volumes of 2,300-year-old silk books – the earliest known in China – arrived in Beijing ... transferred from the National Museum of Asian Art, part of the Smithsonian Institution in ...

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 ...

🎨 These DIY silk thread earrings are elegant ... There's not one but five answers to this While the world eyes China after Trump’s tariffs, Anand Mahindra says: India’s the plot twist ...

Whereas in the past the silk threads were used ... old textile innovation: the art of silk jacquard weaving.” The technique is believed to have been developed in China around the second century ...

While US stealth fighters like the F-22 Raptor grapple with delaminating radar-absorbent coatings – a vulnerability likened to “moulting cicada wings” – China ... the art of silk jacquard ...

In this nostalgic and celebratory tribute to the cultural grandeur of the Silk Road, these musical threads ripple through both the initiated and uninitiated in Chinese traditional art and culture ...

As soon as gold was discovered nearly 7,000 years ago, men did everything in their power to work it into costumes, by hammering it into fragile filaments, then entwining them around a gossamer thread ...

This essay explores some of the art traditions, many of them devotional in nature, of the Silk Roads ... warp and/or the weft threads before they are woven into cloth, originated in India and traveled ...