Threads of Silk and Gold: Chinese Textiles from the Qing Dynasty
The University of Richmond Museums presents Threads of Silk and Gold: Chinese Textiles from the Qing Dynasty, on view from January 17 to May 16, 2014, in the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature. The textiles of the Qing (Ch’ing) Dynasty (1644-1911) represent the culmination of more than two thousand years of Imperial rule dictating the styles of dress not only for the royal family and the tens of thousands of people living and working in the Forbidden City, but also for everyone involved in China’s vast civil bureaucracy, military, and their families spread throughout the Empire. The exhibition features Chinese textiles selected from the Franklin B. Propert Collection, and it focuses on examples of many of the techniques used to produce these remarkable textiles, as well as explaining many of the symbols employed to denote the wearer’s rank in Chinese society.
