The earliest evidence of textiles in Sarawak, located in the west of the island of Borneo, are fragments associated with burials recovered from the Niah Great Cave where prehistoric man lived 40,000 years ago. The earliest material used for...

The evidence of glass manufacture in China comes from the late Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC to 221 BC). The evidences proved that Chinese learned to manufacture glass comparatively later than the Mesopotamians, Egyptians and Indians. Imported glass objects first...

Each corner of Afghanistan has a regional tradition of artisanal ceramics, from simple sun-baked kitchen vessels to the celebrated polychrome tiles which clad the walls of the Friday Mosque of Herat. One area which has seen a revival of its...