The sole of a qian ceng di (shoes with a thousand layers) is made of 30 layers of cloth. [Photo/IC] Qiang Shuping was so busy making cloth shoes for clients who ordered them that she didn't even rest ...

CHENGDU, June 9 (Xinhua) -- In the township of Tangchang, Lai Shufang carefully inspects the new cloth shoes she has made and cuts the extra trimmings protruding from the shoe edges. Lai, 62, is a ...

From the ruins of the Yin and Shang Dynasties (14th–12th centuries BC), archaeologists have unearthed, on independent occasions, a pair of leather shin guards and a headless, kneeling jade human ...

Fabric patterns come in all kinds of colors, shapes, sizes, repeats, and schemes. That’s why picking the right fabric patterns—and mixing prints—can be tricky. So we called on a handful of our ...