In Yizhou District of Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sci-tech enabled modern sericulture and ...

Archaeologists in China have discovered a unique burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, with a toxic ...

The luxurious textile that sparked the first global trade network may have been seen as more than just a material object in ancient China ... traces of fabric. Due to its delicacy, silk is ...

Researchers from the China National Silk Museum and the ... Tests confirmed that silk fibroin was in the fabric remains and ash layers. Mulberry silk was also identified as the material that ...

cultivation of silk has been an integral branch of Suzhou’s past. Cultivation and trade of the fabric in China as a whole dates back over 5,000 years. Silks were originally reserved for the ...

Made from premium mulberry silk, the fabric undergoes a complex, laborintensive production process that includes repetitive dyeing with natural plant extracts, sun-drying, and coating with river mud.

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

Recent revelations by defence industry researchers suggest that cutting-edge stealth technology aboard China ... fabric inspired by Han dynasty (206BC-AD220) jacquard looms – a silk-weaving ...

Waves of Fortune: China's Maritime Silk Road is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.