Professor Zhao Feng, Director of the National Silk Museum, showing visitors around the exhibition, 'Silks from the Silk Road: Origin, Transmission and Exchange' at the West Lake Museum. They are viewing the clothes of the Yingpan burial.
Issue no. 46 of IDP News is now available to read online. It covers the several events on Silk Road textiles organised by the China National Silk Museum, including an exhibition, an international symposium and the founding of a new research association. The opening article is one of the papers given at the symposium, on the discovery of textiles to be used for the paper-making industry near Jericho.- Silk For Paper: A Textile Hoard Found Near Jericho
- Silks from the Silk Road: Origins, Transmissions and Exchange
- International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles
- Reproduction of a Model Pattern Loom from Sichuan
- Zhejiang University: Dunhuang and Silk Road Studies
- Recent Publications
- Exhibitions and Conferences
- IDP Worldwide
- IDP UK
