Culture & meaning
Cloth, Household, Hope
A Tubu Atlas perspective on Chinese homespun: household weaving, dowry, local style, women’s labour and the auspicious wishes carried in cloth.
Stories
Knowledge that stays useful.
Evergreen pages connect terminology, regions and making processes back to real textile records.
Start here
What Is Tubu?
An introduction to locally spun and woven cloth traditions in China, and how Tubu Atlas uses the term.
Region
Nantong Textile Traditions
A framework for documenting the weaving and printed-cloth traditions represented in the Nantong group.
Region
Shanghai & Pudong Homespun
A page for the Shanghai-area cloth group.
Material & method
Reading Hand-Spun Cotton
A visual-reading framework for yarn irregularity, texture, width and other clues recorded in old cloth.