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Fellowship Project

Dr. Yu Ying will spend 5 months at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where she will study collections relevant to her research topic of “Investigation, Classification and Study in the Technology Exchanges of Tapestries unearthed along the Silk Road”. She will assist the museum in works pertaining to the protection, research and exhibition of ancient costumes and textiles — namely authentication, photography and cataloging of a selection of the collections, as well as screening exhibits and writing catalogue entries. She will also give a lecture on ancient Chinese costumes and textiles for the Textile Art Society in Cleveland. In addition, Dr. Yu will assist the museum in writing and publishing a catalogue for the 2023 China exhibition.

Biography

Dr. Yu Ying is Associate Curator of the Art and Crafts Research Department at the Shanghai Museum. Her research focuses on ancient costumes and dyeing, weaving and embroidery technology. She graduated from the Institution of Fashion and Art Design of Donghua University with a doctorate degree in fashion design and engineering in 2010. She was a visiting scholar at the British Museum in 2013, where she studied ancient tapestries in the U.K. Since 2019, she has been in charge of the project “Investigation, Classification and Study in the Technology Exchanges of Tapestries unearthed along the Silk Road” supported by the National Social Science Fund. In 2021, she curated the exhibition “Painting with Threads: Kesi and Embroidery During Ming and Qing Dynasties” at the Shanghai Museum.

Dr. Yu is the author of Jiangnan: Silk Textiles, Painting Embroidery and Indigo Print Gu’s Embroidery, and she has also participated in the compilation of six books including Gu’s Embroidery. She has published more than ten papers including On JI, Gu’s Embroidery, Investigating the Origin of Kesi and Embroidery Art During the Ming and Qing Dynasties and The Woolen Skirt with Tapestry Band from Sampula, Xinjiang, China.