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 ...

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 ...

Embroidery is an old, well-established art form in China for both men and women. Originally, embroidered items included robes, theatrical costumes, purses, shoes, spectacle cases, banners, altar ...

A piece of fabric with exquisite silk embroidery unearthed from a tomb in the area showed that the craft dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC).

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).

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 ...

But now cheap, mass-produced silk from China has eroded Uzbekistan’s silk market, according to Khan, who started work at the factory in 1983 after the birth of her twins.