Prized by Chinese and foreign merchants as an essential commodity along a vast trade network, silk served multiple roles throughout the ancient world: as a fabric for garments, as a form of currency a...

Colours of Congo: Patterns, Symbols and Narratives in 20th-Century Congolese Paintingsdisplays a selection of Congolese work created from the 1920s to 1960. Thanks to unprecedented access to ...

Silk’s cultural history spans more than 5,000 years. Examples of sericulture appear in the Chinese archaeological record as early as the third millennium BCE, and silk fabrics excavated from sites hav...