Explore Hanfu textiles—silk, brocade, cotton, linen, and more. Learn about traditional Chinese fabrics, weaving techniques, and how to choose the right material.
In Against the Current (兰香如故), a wedding-night scene gives Xu Lanxiang (许兰香) a nightgown that shifts from deep rose at the chest to pale pink, then to creamy white near the waist. Viewers may wonder whether such fabric could exist in ancient China. The answer is yes, though not as a factory-made modern gradient. Historical […]
On paper the course runs as four stages: classroom study, workshop operation, field research and a final piece. The 20 people taking it are not beginners. They include front-line designers and technical staff from Shu brocade producers, art teachers from primary and secondary schools, people already working in the garment trade, and postgraduate students still […]
Three fabrics carried the opening night, and each behaved differently under the lights. Yunjin brocade threw back the light in shifts of colour, Song brocade read as a quieter weave, and Xiangyunsha, the gambiered Cantonese gauze, absorbed it and stayed matte. The show ran on October 8 in the Sun Palace hall beside Xuanwu Lake, […]
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