{"id":662,"date":"2016-06-27T14:25:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/hey-i-was-wondering-if-you-could-recommend\/"},"modified":"2016-06-27T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T14:25:50","slug":"hey-i-was-wondering-if-you-could-recommend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/hey-i-was-wondering-if-you-could-recommend\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, I was wondering if you could recommend resources on Chinese textiles?  I&#8217;m making both Song and Ming dynasty outfits and I want to make sure the brocade we want is accurate, but I can&#8217;t seem to find anything on the patterns."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh boy, DO I.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese textile designs, by\u00a0Hanyu Gao<br \/>1992<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/chinese-textile-designs\/oclc\/246543718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat<\/a>\u00a0(find it in a library near you!)<\/p>\n<p>When silk was gold : Central Asian and Chinese textiles, by\u00a0\tJames C Y Watt et al<br \/>Metropolitan Museum of Art<br \/>1997<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/when-silk-was-gold-central-asian-and-chinese-textiles\/oclc\/37194959\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Corpus of Chinese Fabric, Embroidery and Finery: Dying &amp; Weaving<br \/>Corpus of Chinese Fabric, Embroidery and Finery: Embroidery<br \/>2004<br \/>Published by\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tianjin People\u2019s Fine Arts Publishing House<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lccn.loc.gov\/2004638064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Library of Congress<\/a> (all volumes)<\/p>\n<p>Treasures in silk : an illustrated history of Chinese textiles, by\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Feng Zhao<br \/>1999<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/treasures-in-silk-an-illustrated-history-of-chinese-textiles\/oclc\/44423143\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese textiles, by\u00a0<br \/>\nYueh-Siang Chang<br \/>Victoria and Albert Museum<br \/>2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/chinese-textiles\/oclc\/706629063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>History of textile technology of ancient China, by\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Weiji Cheng<br \/>1992<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/history-of-textile-technology-of-ancient-china\/oclc\/26813079\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exquisite fabrics : traditional weaving and embroidery patterns in China, by\u00a0Chunming Gao<br \/>2010<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/exquisite-fabrics-traditional-weaving-and-embroidery-patterns-in-china-jin-xiu-wen-zhang\/oclc\/503075427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese Silks, by\u00a0Dieter Kuhn, et al.<br \/>2012<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/chinese-silks\/oclc\/762135213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WorldCat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, please join us over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/480109585475451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SCA China on Facebook<\/a>. We\u2019re great at sharing resources.Happy hunting! &lt;3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh boy, DO I. Chinese textile designs, by\u00a0Hanyu Gao1992WorldCat\u00a0(find it in a library near you!) When silk was gold : Central Asian and Chinese textiles, by\u00a0 James C Y Watt et alMetropolitan Museum of Art1997WorldCat Corpus of Chinese Fabric, Embroidery and Finery: Dying &amp; WeavingCorpus of Chinese Fabric, Embroidery and Finery: Embroidery2004Published by\u00a0 Tianjin People\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/blog\/2016\/06\/27\/hey-i-was-wondering-if-you-could-recommend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hey, I was wondering if you could recommend resources on Chinese textiles?  I&#8217;m making both Song and Ming dynasty outfits and I want to make sure the brocade we want is accurate, but I can&#8217;t seem to find anything on the patterns.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[149,135,134,223,226,227,180,116,123,112,225,224],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eTPU-aG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biblionalia.info\/leah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}