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HANGZHOU, China, Oct. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

On October 15, the complete collection of the 15-year book series, Textiles

from Dunhuang, was finally launched at Donghua University. Led by Prof. Zhao

Feng, director of China National Silk Museum and professor of Donghua

University, the team collaborated with specialists from four countries to

complete this historical masterpiece.

It includes 10 volumes of Chinese and English versions of Dunhuang textiles

from UK, French, Russian, and Chinese collections in Lushun and Dunhuang

Academy, with multiple texts and over a thousand pieces from large banners to

small fragments. Completion of the vast Textiles from Dunhuang project

benefited from its strong international team from cultural institutions across

the world, including British Museum, British Library, Victoria and Albert

Museum, Musee Guimet, National Library of France, State Hermitage Museum St.

Petersburg, Dunhuang Academy, and Lushun Museum based on research from the

China National Silk Museum and Donghua University.

From 2004, Donghua University and China National Silk Museum jointly

established a Dunhuang Textile Research Team, which started studying Dunhuang

textiles in a comprehensive and systematic way. In 2006, Prof. Zhao Feng was

invited to UK, France, and Russia to study fabric remains from the Library Cave

(Cave 17) in Mogao Grottos, Dunhuang. Since the end of 2013, another team from

China National Silk Museum carried out systematic analysis and conservation of

textiles mainly from the northern part of Mogao Grottos.

For the first time, this book series takes Dunhuang textiles as a complete

object for research and publication that fills the gap in Dunhuang studies. As

Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the State Hermitage Museum said, "Thanks to

these studies and the ensuing publications we can reconstruct the complex

history of silk and its production in the 1st millennium AD -- the material

that became the symbol and gave the name to the great trade route." Textiles

from Dunhuang is a work of excellence signifying, "It shows the importance of

rigorous training, experience with historical materials and mutual

collaboration at the highest level, and it has opened the way for further

research and understanding in the future", Helen Wang, the curator from the

British Museum added.

SOURCE  China National Silk Museum

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   Caption: Chief Editor of Textiles from Dunhuang: Dr. Zhao Feng, director of China

National Silk Museum and Donghua University professor