Imperial Riverscroll – A Journey in Silk Threads
United Nations Registration No.00200
Heritage Since
Landscape Composition in Guo Xi’s (1072 AD)
Collector Grade
99.8% Color Consistency per Spectrophotometry
Manual Hours
21-Day Hand-Reeling of ‘Moonlit’ Silk Threads
📜 Story Behind the Craft
This landscape scroll reimagines a classical mountain-water composition with luminous depth. Jagged cliffs, winding rivers, waterfalls, and distant hamlets unfold across the fabric like a dream.
It pays visual homage to China's historic reverence for harmony between man and nature. The use of brilliant color contrasts — jade greens, mineral blues, glowing yellows — evokes both the grandeur of the land and the serenity it offers.
Rather than realistic replication, this piece aims for symbolic idealism: a poetic map of a world in perfect balance.
📐 Product Specifications
- Artwork size: approx. 13 × 32.7 in
- Framed size: approx. 18.9 × 43.3 in
- Materials: Handwoven mulberry silk with natural pigments, walnut wood frame
- Color palette: Antique gold base with azure, pine green, and mineral blue
- Packaging: Gift box with protective inner casing
🤝 Made with Care
- Woven on traditional multi-shuttle looms
- No printing or artificial texturing
- Naturally pigmented silk, fully biodegradable
- Finished with museum-grade mounting techniques
- Created in limited batches for cultural accuracy
🧵 Craftsmanship & Ingredients
This scroll is woven using techniques rooted in imperial textile traditions, where each terrain feature is rendered through subtle thread transitions — peaks with textured silk layering, rivers with floating gradients.
Rather than using paint, every hue is woven — meaning dozens of dyed threads are coordinated to produce natural light effects. Each scroll requires extensive pre-loom planning and over 100 hours of hand-guided weaving.
The base fabric is premium mulberry silk, known for its strength, sheen, and softness.
🌏 Artisan & Origin Spotlight
This piece is crafted at the Nanjing Yunjin Brocade Research Institute, where national master weavers continue to revive historic Chinese court tapestry forms.
The landscape theme reflects not only artistic beauty, but a worldview — one where peace, prosperity, and nature remain in balance.
🏛️ Cultural Heritage Recognition
Recognized by UNESCO as Global Cultural Heritage
Yunjin weaving, once reserved for royal scrolls and ceremonial robes, is one of the world’s most advanced and labor-intensive textile arts.
In 2009, it was officially recognized as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
UNESCO ICH Registration
🔖 UNESCO ICH No.00076
🔗 Learn more on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage website →
When you hang this piece, you display a cultural legacy — one that honors harmony, precision, and the poetic dignity of landscape art.
Certified recognition by UNESCO strengthens our commitment to authenticity, sustainability, and cultural respect.
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