Humans, ever aware of and influenced by our surroundings, have a fundamental need to define and personalize our spaces. The physical environment in which our life unfolds, whether at home, ...

Many places in the city are named after silk manufacturing processes, and in China's literary classic Dream of the Red ... introduces the three primary applications of the fabric in ancient times — ...

Festival is typically a time of nostalgia as Chinese households think back with fondness of their time as children in summer ...

The Wool Lab Denim Edition presents seven wool denim categories: A Revised Classic, Special Treatments, Denim Shirting, The ...

The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) unveiled seven major breakthroughs in technological archaeology and cultural ...

Celebrate Raksha Bandhan with love and creativity by learning how to make a unique rakhi at home! 🪢❤️ This DIY tutorial shows you how to craft a simple yet beautiful rakhi using silk thread, beads, ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts arrived from Washington, D.C., where the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) had formally deaccessioned them several days earlier during a ceremony at the ...

“In October 2013, during a speech in Indonesia, Chinese president Xi Jinping called for the development of a ‘Maritime Silk Road,’ to compliment the ‘Silk Road Economic Belt’ that he had ...

People have been weaving silk into fabric for at least 5,000 ... World War II paratroopers. In ancient China, the birthplace of silk, it became luxury paper, a medium for paintings and even ...

The mass production of toilet paper ... Silk Road in northwest China. There, archaeologists discovered seven so-called “hygiene sticks”—bamboo or wood sticks wrapped with cloth and designed ...

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 ... Post explained. The paper added that the delamination ...

According to their paper, published in the Chinese journal Knitting Industries, the answer could lie in a dual-layer composite fabric inspired by Han Dynasty jacquard looms. This silk-weaving ...