The luxurious textile that sparked the first global trade network may have been seen as more than just a material object in ancient China. Having discovered silk residues in a Bronze-Age ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

The ancient Silk Road helped to integrated the old Chinese, Indian, Persian, Arabian, ancient Greek and Roman cultures and promoted the exchange of the Western and Oriental civilizations.

Chinese researchers have allegedly found a novel way to solve long-term stealth coating integrity with an ancient silk-weaving technique called “jacquard weaving.” This method could ...

We wait. In the eighth century a trader to the northeast of us, near a Chinese town called Turpan, paid 40 bolts of raw silk for an 11-year-old slave girl. To the southeast, a thousand years ...

A study on weaving was published in the Chinese peer-reviewed journal ... by looking to a resilient “3,000-year-old textile innovation: the art of silk jacquard weaving.” ...

Different cultures follow different practices, especially when death arrives. Some believe in mummification, while some ...

Recent revelations by defence industry researchers suggest that cutting-edge stealth technology aboard China’s ... to a 3,000-year-old textile innovation: the art of silk jacquard weaving.