The exhibition is divided into three sections: "Silk and the Silk Road", "Ancient Silk Patterns", and "Contemporary Revitalization and Application". Through ancient Chinese silk patterns and ...

Before you drop that china off at the thrift store, take a sec to flip it over and give it a closer look. Knowing how to spot valuable antique china marks and identify the patterns you have can mean ...

Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China ...

One of the most advanced fighter jets in the U.S. Air Force’s arsenal faces an engineering problem which an ancient Chinese silk-weaving tactic may solve. The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor remains the ...

Silk has played an important role in almost every aspect of Chinese society, politics and culture. A prestige textile, it signified status and wealth, figured in literature and religious rituals and ...