The British painter has dedicated her career to depicting human flesh, especially that of women, with deep empathy.

hand-stitching each design onto a large silk cloth, which requires about two months to complete. Each cloth accommodates eight to 10 dial designs, which are then cut out and affixed with an ...

while the other parts are made from fine silk cloth. From head to toe, inside and out, only top quality Chinese silk and spun gauzes are used to make these craftworks. The graceful and colorful ...

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road as a one-way highway across Asia. The British Museum’s “Silk Roads” sets the exotica of camels, caravans, silks and spices in a web of ...

"Lian" is a raw silk woven product with white color. In ancient China, the process of turning raw silk fabric into soft and lustrous cloth was called "Dao Lian," which was regarded as a fundamental ...

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Long Island farmer Abraham Woodhull is recruited by the Colonial Army to spy on the British. At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, struggling Long Island farmer Abraham Woodhull is recruited by ...