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...

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

The exhibition is now extended to February 23, 2020. Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems began as a six-year research project (2010–2016) developed with expertise from more than thirty international textile a...