Chinese Dunhuang Historical Clothing Patterns

Author: Chang Shan-na
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Publish Date: 2001-01-08
Features: Dunhuang is a world-famous grotto gallery. It preserves statues and murals from the Sixteen Kingdoms, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Northern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties, Song, Western Xia, and Yuan dynasties. The content includes Buddhist and mythological stories, vividly documenting the social customs, geography, mountains and rivers, transportation, life, architecture, clothing, music, and dance of each period, providing extremely valuable artistic and historical materials. This book systematically organizes the clothing patterns reflected in Dunhuang murals and sculptures, recreating the original appearance of the patterns from each dynasty. It is an indispensable reference book for practical art workers engaged in advertising design, fashion design, and interior decoration today, and also provides extremely rich materials and reliable evidence for professionals and painters studying ancient Chinese dyeing and weaving patterns.