Today, for designer Fan Yanyan, silk has once again become a medium of cross-border connection. Inspired by the mural art in ...

Despite the intricate work required, textiles have never really been considered in the realm of traditional art – but these ...

As a major highlight of the "China Tourism Year", an exhibition titled Silk and the Silk Road: From China to Kazakhstan also ...

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

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 ...

For example, the art of the Silk Road includes the devotional art of Buddhism ... and attempts have been made to revive it today. The ancient Chinese were adept at a great many applied and decorative ...

SANYA, China, Sept. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In an unexpected fusion of ancient culture and modern ... brings the millennia-old art of the Dunhuang Grottoes to life through cutting-edge digital ...

One of the most advanced fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal faces an engineering problem which an ancient Chinese silk ... textile innovation: the art of silk jacquard weaving.” ...

(Xinhua/Liu Lei) Li Xintong's journey with Ebru, the ancient Turkish art of paper marbling ... incorporating elements such as a Chinese silk fan, a delicate silk scarf, a small parasol, and ...

Their route in? Quite likely, they hitched a ride along the Silk Road. A team of Chinese researchers has conducted a genomic analysis of 22 ancient cat bones gathered from 14 sites across the ...

“[It is a] marriage of ancient patterning ... old textile innovation: the art of silk jacquard weaving.” The technique is believed to have been developed in China around the second century ...