Evergreen pages connect terminology, regions and making processes back to real textile records.
Trace the peony from Tang and Song literary culture to auspicious design and vintage Chinese folk textiles, with examples from multicolour printing, blue resist and Tubu Atlas study pieces.
Explore Die Lian Hua, the butterfly-and-flower motif across vintage Chinese textiles, from Nantong multicolour prints and indigo-resist cloth to ramie summer cloth and study fragments.
A Tubu Atlas perspective on Chinese homespun: household weaving, dowry, local style, women’s labour and the auspicious wishes carried in cloth.
What is tubu? Explore Chinese homespun cloth through spinning, weaving, regional traditions, household use, trade and surviving textile records.
Explore loom tiaohua (织机挑花), a hand pick-up weaving practice in Jiangnan homespun, and learn how it differs from treadle figuring, drawloom weaving and tiaohua embroidery.
Explore Nantong printed cotton textiles, from indigo-resist blue calico to later colour-printed cloth, and how printing transformed woven cotton into household textiles.
A framework for documenting the weaving and printed-cloth traditions represented in the Nantong group.
A page for the Shanghai-area cloth group.
A visual-reading framework for yarn irregularity, texture, width and other clues recorded in old cloth.
