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Keywords: Chinese silk, 4th Century BC.JPG Detail of an embroidered silk gauze ritual garment from a 4th century BC Zhou era tomb at Mashan Hubei province China The flowing curvilinear design incorporates dragons phoenixes and tigers Rows of even round chain-stitches are used both for outline and to fill in color From my book by Patricia Ebrey 1999 4th century BC PericlesofAthens PD-art Art of the Zhou Dynasty Chinese embroidery Chinese dragons Fenghuang Tigers in Chinese art |