As China's only national-level Song Dynasty (960-1279) brocade inheritor, Qian has been seeking creative breakthroughs such as China-West silk culture exchanges to promote the silk art that ...

The process of harvesting these cocoons for silk is called sericulture, and has existed for thousands of years.Essentially, farmers create an artificial environment for the moths to lay their eggs on ...

3,000-Year-Old Silk Found In Sacrificial Pit In China The material was thought to have been used as a medium of communication between heaven and Earth. Benjamin Taub ...

Silk has been found in the tombs of Egyptian mummies, and in ancient Rome it was blamed for making young women promiscuous. To historians, silk artifacts reflect the trade and social customs of ...

Archaeologists Found Someone They Never Expected in an Ancient Chinese Tomb: a Blonde Man The discovery reveals an unexpected connection to the ancient Silk Road. By Tim Newcomb Published: Jul 27 ...

The ancient silk industry itself is bound up with legends about Chinese tea-sipping empresses under mulberry trees and a ...