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 ...

Suzhou embroidery is one of the most celebrated styles of Chinese silk embroidery, named for the city of Suzhou in China's Jiangsu province. With a history of more than 2,000 years, ...

A nearly 100-year-old book about China's silk embroidery is being published as a new version with annotations from renowned Chinese scholar Shen Congwen thanks to collaboration between Beijing ...

In this Know Your Handloom edition, we take a look at the Parsi gara embroidery - a blend of cultures, reimagined for modern ...

Chinese silk embroidery has been a staple of national culture and tradition for thousands of years, with pieces being found from as early as the Zhou dynasty (1046 to 256BC).

Qian's journey to bring Chinese silk culture to the West has never stopped. In the early 2000s, she traveled to France, Japan and Sweden for exhibitions and seminars on Chinese Song brocade.

All these characteristics, which distinguish it from other embroidery styles in China, have long been connected with the natural environment and lifestyle of Suzhou, a city with a long history of ...

This embroidered silk panel was made in China sometime in the 17th century, apparently for export to the West. It is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum as well as in its current show ...

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. He wasn’t sure ...