Silk tapestry is a form of textile art having a long history in China and employing specialized techniques.
The Chinese term for tapestry, k'o, is defined as 'weaving weft': in other words, the formation of the pattern is based solely on changes in weaving the weft threads, with both sides of the image being the same, only reversed. Since the various adjoining colors in the weft are separate, the result is a saw-tooth gap along the edges of the forms, which is why tapestry is also known as 'carved silk.'
The National Palace Museum is home to a large and unique collection of tapestries, some of the most representative of which date from the Sung dynasty and are mainly on the subject of birds and flowers. The many different approaches to achieving the same goal in tapestry are comparable to intimate works of 'sketching from life' in Sung dynasty painting.

National Palace Museum, Taiwan
01 aprile 2009 - 25 giugno 2009