Press a rubbing of a dragon-and-phoenix motif and the structure of Luchou silk (潞绸) becomes visible: warp threads packed so evenly that the woven pattern reads like a painting. That rubbing station, set up inside the Lu-Anfu (潞安府) Luchou Culture Park in Gaoping (高平), Shanxi, is where the eighth Luchou Dragon Phoenix Culture Festival opened […]








