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The Silk Road Chinese Restaurant & Takeaway
and Oriental Art & Craft Store 

The Silk Road is a crafts trade store located in the beautiful Lake District. Embroidery art and garden art add radiance and beauty to each other. It is an ideal place for viewing, admiring, choosing and ordering embroidery works of art



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Having a long history, Suzhou embroidery is perfect craftsmanship and is renowned at home and abroad. Suzhou embroidery carries forward the good traditions of Suzhou embroidery. The embroidered works of arts, fine silks and gold thread-woven works of art it has created are rich in content and embroidered with exquisite skill. They have become one of the state’s important gift exhibits, having repeatedly won gold prizes at the International Fair and gold-cup prizes in the State-level quality appraisals. 

In recent years, the institute also has co-operated extensively with domestic and foreign artists, integrated traditional craft with modern theme, enhanced artistic connotation of embroidery and has successfully developed a batch of high-grade Suzhou exquisite embroidery works. 

We offer a large selection of 

We offer a wide range of Chinese Craft & Art Products,  Chinese Paper &  Silk Fans,  Chinese Knots, Chinese Prints, Chinese Embroidery,  Chinese Screens, Framed Chinese Embroidery and Art,  Chinese Tea Sets,  Teapots & Tables, Chinese Kites, Chinese Bookmarks,  Chinese Pouches,  Chinese Tie Dye Wall Hangings and a Large Selection of  Chinese Wood Carvings and Furniture.

 
Chinese Paper - From Wikipedia


Cai Lun (ca. 50 AD – 121), courtesy name Jingzhong, was a Chinese eunuch, who is traditionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper (as opposed to Egyptian papyrus). Although paper existed in China before Cai Lun (since the 2nd century BC), he was responsible for the first significant improvement and standardization of papermaking by adding essential new materials into its composition. More Info click here

Fan - From Wikipedia

In China, screen fans were used throughout the country. The earliest known Chinese fans are a pair of woven bamboo side-mounted fans from the 2nd century BC. The Chinese character for "fan"is etymologically derived from a picture of feathers under a roof. The Chinese fixed fan, pien-mien, means 'to agitate the air'.

Hokusai's Five Fans.Fans were part of the social status for the Chinese people. A particular status and gender would accord a specific type of fan to an individual. During the Song Dynasty, famous artists would often be commissioned to paint picture on the surface of a fan. More Info click here

 

The Silk Road is a Chinese Takeaway & Restaurant and an Oriental Art and Crafts Store
Located in Keswick, Cumbria, Lake District, Untited Kingdom
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