The craft atlas
Places
Production places understood through resources, workshops, labour, institutions and circulation—not labels alone.
北京 · Běijīng
Beijing
Beijing is a major historical centre for court-linked cloisonné production, collection and circulation.
福州 · Fúzhōu
Fuzhou
Fuzhou is a Fujian craft centre associated with bodiless lacquerware and other layered lacquer traditions.
景德镇 · Jǐngdézhèn
Jingdezhen
Jingdezhen is a porcelain-production centre in Jiangxi whose mines, workshops, kilns, guilds and trade networks formed an unusually complete craft system.
苏州 · Sūzhōu
Suzhou
Suzhou is a Jiangnan city whose textile economy and workshop traditions are closely associated with silk weaving and Su embroidery.