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An exterior view of the Suzhou Silk Museum in China. The Suzhou Silk Museum is a museum in Suzhou, China. It documents the history of silk production and Suzhou embroidery from around 2000 BC. Exhibits include old looms with demonstrations, samples of ancient silk patterns, and an explanation of sericulture. Of major note is a room full of live ...
Suzhou embroidery, Su embroidery or Su xiu (simplified Chinese: 苏绣; traditional Chinese: 蘇繡) is the embroidery created around the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. It is one of the oldest embroidery techniques in the world and is the most representative type of art in Chinese embroidery .
Suzhou has a long history of reeling silkworms and has always been an important base for silk production in China. Since the Song and Yuan dynasties, Suzhou has been one of the centres of silk weaving and dyeing in the country, and in the Ming dynasty , Suzhou silk was praised as the "clothing of the world".
Currently the earliest real sample of silk embroidery discovered in China is from a tomb in Mashan in Hubei province identified with the Zhanguo period (5th–3rd centuries BC). After the opening of Silk Route in the Han dynasty, the silk production and trade flourished. In the 14th century, the Chinese silk embroidery production reached its ...
Silk spinning mill, Suzhou, China The filaments of six cocoons are used to form one thread for spinning silk (Suzhou, 1987) Women weaving silk. Kashgar. Local governments have and are continuing to introduce new facilities that are expected to bring in latest high-end silk manufacturing machinery that will elevate both the quality and the quantity of the silk being produced in China.
Suzhou Arts and Crafts Museum (Chinese: 苏州工艺美术博物馆; pinyin: sūzhōu Gōngyì Měishù Bówùguǎn) was established in 2002, and officially opened to the public in January 2003. It is located in Suzhou at No. 88 Northwest Street, in a building known as "Shangzhi Tang" that date back to the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the ...
Ancient Buddhist murals and statues in caves along China’s Silk Road are under “direct threat” from extreme rainfall brought by climate change, researchers have found.
Shengze (Chinese: 盛泽) is a town in Wujiang District, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. [1] It is famous for its textile industry. References