Zhou Kangming
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Han ethnicity, born in January 1948 in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. Representative bearer of Silk Weaving Craftsmanship (Shuanglin Lingjuan Weaving Craftsmanship), a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. A silk weaving technician. In 1965 he entered the Shuanglin Lingjuan Factory to learn the traditional weaving of lingjuan, a fine damask-and-tabby silk, and mastered more than twenty processes, including soaking, silk reeling, warp setting, quill winding, weaving, scouring and dyeing, calendering and finishing. In recent years, through continuous study and exploration, he has further developed the lingjuan making process. At the same time he has engaged in research on materials for mounting calligraphy and paintings and on lingjuan itself, concentrating on the processing and making of materials, the properties of the various materials and the coating techniques used for lingjuan.
Honors & Recognition
In 1980 he developed brocade lingjuan (jinling) and Guxiang brocade, winning the second prize for outstanding creative design in the China Arts and Crafts Hundred Flowers Awards, conferred by the Ministry of Light Industry.
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