2,000-year-old see-through Chinese gown, the world’s lightest silk dress, is finally replicated successfully.
After years of effort, craftspeople have made a replica of the world’s lightest silk dress – discovered in a tomb and more than 2,100 years old – and it will go on display in central China in place of the original, it has been reported.
The museum was keen to reproduce the surviving dress after it lost its sheen and became less elastic during years of being exhibited, and in 2016 it commissioned the Nanjing Yunjin Research Institute, which specialises in traditional Chinese brocade, to make a replica, the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported.
Last week the museum announced the new replica had been completed after two years of experiments and would be used in future exhibitions. The ancient silk measures just 10.2 denier, whereas modern silk is heavier at 14 denier, being produced by today’s fatter silk worms that go through five stages of moulting.
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