This is the first privately-funded silk culture museum in China, housing nearly a thousand pieces of modern and contemporary silk works, including the dragon robe of Emperor Tongzhi from the Qing Dynasty and a peacock coat imitating Jia Baoyu’s from the novel.
Visitors to the museum will be exposed to various encyclopedias of silk, such as Cai Lun’s papermaking technique which was an improvement on ‘silk cotton paper’, and the fact that silk was the legal tender during the Sui and Tang dynasties, with a horse in the Tang Dynasty being worth about 35 pieces of silk fabric. In addition to Chinese silk products, the site also displays the world’s first silk textbook from a century ago in Lyon, France, and the first silk scarf printing plate. Opening hours are from January 1st to December 31st, 08:30 to 17:30.Wensli Silk (Hangzhou Tower Branch)
This is the first privately-funded silk culture museum in China, housing nearly a thousand pieces of[...]
