Chinese Handicrafts --- Silk Cloud Brocade

It is one of the traditional silk-knit brocades. It is named after its color as gorgeous as colorful cloud, for it is made of high quality silk and woven with exquisite skill. The silk industry consists of two trades: the pattern brocade trade and the unpatterned brocade trade since the end of the Qing Dynasty. Not until then did the name "cloud brocade" come into use.