When Silk was Gold

When Silk was Gold

Central Asian and Chinese Textiles

by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, Cleveland Museum of Art, James C. Y. Watt, Anne E. Wardwell

238 pages· 1997· ISBN 9780870998256
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The demise of the Silk Roads and the end of expansionist policies, together with the rapid increase in maritime trade, brought to an end the vital economic and cultural interchange that had characterized the years preceding the death of the Ming-dynasty Yongle emperor in 1424. Overland, intrepid merchants no longer transported silks throughout Eurasia and weavers no longer traveled to distant lands. But the products that survive from that wondrous time attest to a glorious era - when silk was resplendent as gold.

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