Chinese Sericulture and Silk Craftsmanship

Chinese sericulture and silk craftsmanship spans mulberry cultivation, silkworm rearing, reeling, dyeing and weaving along with their folk customs, profoundly shaping Chinese civilization and the Silk Road. It was jointly nominated in 2009 by Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Sichuan.

Hangzhou's representative fabrics, such as Hangluo gauze-silk, are woven of pure mulberry silk in plain and leno weaves with evenly spaced openings—smooth, sheer and supple; the Hangluo weaving technique is itself national ICH.

Inscribed on UNESCO's representative list in 2009, the tradition marks Hangzhou as a key center of China's silk culture.

The China Silk Museum is the lead institution for the inscription and its display and transmission.