Black Silk, Brown Silk: China and Beyond—Fabric Analysis

Authors

Margaret T. Ordoñez, University of Rhode Island

Date of this Version

2008

Document Type

Article

Comments

Presented at Textile Society of America 11^th Biennial Symposium: Textiles as Cultural Expressions, September 4-7, 2008, Honolulu, Hawai'i. Copyright © 2008 Margaret T. Ordoñez

Abstract

This one-hour discussion panel will examine bi-colored black and brown silk textiles called chiao-chou and shiang-yin-sa, (a.k.a. black gummed silk, Canton silk, cloud perfumed silk, gambiered silk, and by other names). Little known in the West, these textiles express cultural identities associated with a specific geographic locals