Photo Credits

Qiu Ying仇英, Qingming shanghe tu清明上河图 (Along the River at Shangming), 1494-1552, Liaoning Bowuguan 辽宁省博物馆. Detail showing Dyeshop (染坊)

Xu Yang, The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Six: Entering Suzhou along the Grand Canal. dated 1770. Handscroll; ink and color on silk, 27 1/8 x 784 1/2 in. (68.8 x 1994 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1988 (1988.350a-d). Detail showing Cotton cloth shop: “Our cloth store dyes cloth in true-blue, extra-long bolts of biaobu, koubu and suobu cloth” (本號加染真青，加長標扣梭布，布行) 

Woollen robe for a statue, embroidered with coloured silks and metallic threads, China, 1830, Victoria and Albert Museum (T.290-1962)

 “One Hundred Birds” Hanging scroll, China, 19th century, white silk satin with polychrome silk embroidery, 109.5 x 72.9 cm, Yale University Gallery (1937.5600)

 Cloud brocade silk jacket, with embroidered cloud collar and borders patterned with landscape motifs interspersed with poetry, mid-nineteenth century. L 102.5 cm, W 140 cm. Royal Ontario Museum (979.107.3)