The parts of the manuscript returning to China are Wuxing Ling and Gongshou Zhan, known by scholars as Volumes II and III.

The plane carrying China's earliest known silk texts, the Zidanku silk manuscript volumes II and III, touched down at Beijing ...

When you see a person for the first time, you get a snapshot of his/her personality via the choice of fabric they have worn.

Mobiles were never in the plans. At least, not at first. But here they hang, twirling and bouncing in the currents generated ...

There was space inside, but in a way I thought it felt more lonely than if we’d made it smaller.” Hull took inspiration from ...

Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, who has died at the age of 90, was an archaeologist and author who specialised in the study of archaeological textiles of Ireland for over 30 years.