The craft atlas

Places

Production places understood through resources, workshops, labour, institutions and circulation—not labels alone.

  1. 北京 · Běijīng

    Beijing

    Beijing is a major historical centre for court-linked cloisonné production, collection and circulation.

  2. 福州 · Fúzhōu

    Fuzhou

    Fuzhou is a Fujian craft centre associated with bodiless lacquerware and other layered lacquer traditions.

  3. 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.

  4. 苏州 · Sūzhōu

    Suzhou

    Suzhou is a Jiangnan city whose textile economy and workshop traditions are closely associated with silk weaving and Su embroidery.