The Behistun (also spelt Bisotoun, Bistoon, Bisitun, Bisutun) Historic Site is located in the northwest Iranian province of Kermanshah on a branch of the Aryan Trade Roads (also called the Silk Roads), a portion of which became the Royal Road of Darius I, the Great. Within the site ...
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Silk Stocking District Located east of Arizona Avenue and north of Chandler Boulevard Silk Stocking District This neighborhood was considered more affluent contemporary. The namesake of "Silk Stocking District" came from locals saying... "If you can afford to pay $4,000 for a house, you can af...
There were many silk mills in the town, and the wife of the owner of one of them, Elizabeth Wardle, as well as being the mother of 14 children, 9 of whom survived infancy, also set up the Leek Embroidery Society. The organisation produced embroidery for clients, and designed and sold...
Last May, I met Paul. He told me that it was his first time in China. He talked to me with great excitement about the history, migrations, and discoveries in my region of China. He spoke of the Shu-Yandu Dao (the Southern Silk Road), the travels of the 17th-century Chinese explorer...
In this post, we’re going to show you a second method to create a button-free appearance on an upperbody garment by ‘genderswapping’ our garment, a version of which I’ve used before on this raw silk shirt retool project. How do you swap a piece of clothing’s gender, you ask?
Classical music soothes visitors in the Textile Gallery where you’ll find fashions of various eras made of silk, cotton, linen, and wool – Britain’s singlemost export from the 10thcentury until the end of the 18th. Interestingly, the domestic factory that produced the wool for George Washi...
Rare surviving textiles show the cultural connectivity and diversity of urban and religious life along the Silk Road. View chapterExplore book Urban Planning in China Tingwei Zhang, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015 Recorded Planned Cities in ...
The entrance hall is vast, with a classical screen protecting a drawing room centred around a large fireplace. There are two drawing rooms at ground floor level, the East and West Silk Drawing Rooms, named for their wall coverings. Fine furniture is scattered throughout, with portraits of Shef...