LONDON - The Chinese Silk Culture and Embroidery Art Exhibition kicked off in London on Tuesday. The two-day exhibition, held in the building of Bank of China's London Branch, brings together more ...

Thomczek identified it as a 19 th century Chinese silk panel, adding that it is “really nicely done and the work is quite intricate. It has small metal bits woven into the silk.

Cross-cultural Cloth The Daily Pic, Met Monday Edition: From the Metropolitan Museum, a Chinese textile that inspired weavers in Peru. Blake Gopnik Published Oct. 28 2013 5:31PM EDT ...

China was the first culture to discover and use silk and as a result, through successive line of mastery, is still a world leader in the manufacture and art of silk embroidery.

It is time for yet another part of the history of fashion to make it back to the future! What was once a symbol of tradition and heritage has now transformed into a fashion statement embraced by ...

Because of this, silk production is kept secret by the Chinese. Who brought European silk? Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm ...