Yunjin

Dragon robe of the emperor in Yunjin brocade Qianlong (1736-1796) at the Grassi Museum in Leipzig

Yunjin, also called cloud brocade,^[1] is a traditional Chinese silk brocade made in Jiangsu since the end of the Song Dynasty,^[2] and based on weft-weaving techniques from both the Song and Tang dynasties.^[1] It is shuttle-woven, and often incorporates gold and silver threads with the coloured silks.^[3] During the Ming Dynasty the yunjin weavers developed a technique of swivel weaving that enabled them to weave colourful designs onto a base fabric in other weaves, such as satin.^[4]

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