Gold Thread Research Articles

A Study of the Gold Threads Unearthed from Tomb M15 Dated to the Three Kingdoms to the Sixteen Kingdoms Periods in Kuqa County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

A Study of the Gold Threads Unearthed from Tomb M15 Dated to the Three Kingdoms to the Sixteen Kingdoms Periods in Kuqa County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

월정사성보박물관 소장 〈수라향낭〉의 직물과 자수 연구

This paper is for the study on textile and embroidery of Embroidered incense pouch on complex gauze, housed by Woljeongsa Museum. It is the unique case which expressed pattern with embroidery on complex gauze among relics of Korea dynasty. The shape of incense pouch is square, and all fiber materials are discolored into brown. The pattern is that young boy is born from lotus, and the pattern of incense pouch is identical at the front and rear, but has symmetrical composition. For the part of embroidery, the technique of applique was used, and complex gauze of pattern and basis is different from each other. For embroidery, two pieces of Non-patterned complex gauze and Silk Tabby in the rear were used, and another fabric of plain silk was used with linings. Concerning embroidery thread, 3 kinds such as silk floss, silk twisted thread, and wrapped gold thread can be confirmed, and 5 kinds of embroidery technique such as straight stitch, satin stitch, split stitch, couching stitch, and chain couching stitch were used. It is the chain couching stitch which we can check only in the incense pouch among Korean embroidery relics, and for special embroidery technique. The similarity between fabric composition of incense pouch and embroidery technique can be found from embroidery relics in Liao Dynasty. It is estimated that the production date of incense pouch is about 10-11 century, in early Korea dynasty.

A Study of the Gold Threads Unearthed From Tomb M15 Dated to the Wei-Jin to Sixteen Kingdoms Period in Kuqa County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

A Study of the Gold Threads Unearthed From Tomb M15 Dated to the Wei-Jin to Sixteen Kingdoms Period in Kuqa County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

CT appearance of gold thread facelift

CT appearance of gold thread facelift

Weaving the gold thread: strategic resources in a fashion industry

In the field of business strategy, the resource-based view demonstrates through the firm’s resources its ability to gain competitive advantage. This research had as objective identifying the resources that can be considered strategic in an industry of artisan fashion and thus to generate competitive advantage in this sector. The research method consists in a case study through a qualitative approach, where interviews were made with members of the organization and an external consultant. The data were analyzed through content analysis. The analyzed industry manufactures artisan fashion pieces with natural wool and demonstrates internal attributes that appear as differentials. Natural wool was once one of the great products of Rio Grande do Sul and had its decay with the emergence of synthetic fibers in the post-war period. Now another perspective emerges for the so-called 'White Gold' and its use as a competitive differential allied to the quality and sustainability of organic fibers and regional identity valued in this market.

The Ancient Technique of Weaving with the Contemporary Art

This study is a qualitative research method. The purposes are firstly to trial production of Pha Yok Dok which is one of the local handicrafts, found in the north-eastern part of Thailand. It is the guidelines for handling core issues of the creation and must start from studying motif of design, focus on techniques the golden fabric is located at weaving with gold threads, called Yok Thong. Secondly, to improve the pattern of contemporary fabric are the synthesis of Yok Dok texti le design in making fabric. It is a complex process which requires highly skilled weavers. In researcher’s point of view, for weaving of each fabric-depending on the design and used for similar was weaving 1500 shaft/Ta-kor. Thirdly to invent textile art inspiration from Yok Dok textile design to create new works of art. The results showed that the fabric weave of the operation weave structure on motifs of Yok Dok textile design. This is an outstanding special technique. The contemporary new fabric pattern can be operated by opening and closing of the warp yarn on a draw frame. The new pattern design and process of Yok Dok textile design by fabric weave selection. It is a supplementary weft technique that is the process a nd design which is the first method of fabric craft practice use for the manual textile art inspiration from Yok Dok textile design to those who is the weaver. Textile weaving process by adding a special fabric pattern these characteristics come from the roots and identity of steps and methods of natural fabric cultivation. It is completed by delicate skill of weaving alternatives for creating a product and to serve as a guideline for further research. This handicraft highlights the significance continuation and bridge the relationship between classic fabric contemporary. Art to humanity from the ancient world until the present day. In summary the researchers plan to design and c ontemporary Yok Dok, a synthesis between classical the golden fabric of the Royal cord of Rattanakosin period and the contemporary Thai litterateur work which telling design.

Visible light inactivation of E.coli, Cytotoxicity and ROS determination of biochemically capped gold nanoparticles.

The formation of metal nanoparticles is one of the most vast and intensifying research areas in favor of prospective applications for the advancement of new technologies. It is a well-founded, significant feature of green chemistry that making marvelous interconnection between nano-biotechnology and microbial biotechnology. In the present research, the aqueous extract of medicinally important plant Coptis Chinensis (in Chinese called "gold thread") was applied for the synthesis of gold nanoparticles (Au-NPs). The crystalline structure, size, shape and dispersion of Au-NPs were confirmed by using various characterization techniques i.e. X-ray Diffraction (XRD), High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (HRTEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX). Well dispersed face centered cubic crystalline structures were obtained in the this contribution. The possible phyto-chemicals involved in the reduction and stabilization of Au-NPs were confirmed by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FT-IR). The prepared NPs were tested against highly drug resistance bacterium Escherichia coli both in light and dark. The results illustrated that the antibacterial efficiency of photo irradiated Au-NPs was several times higher than in dark Au-NPs. The zone of inhibition for irradiated Au-NPs was19±0.5mm, which was higher than in dark 14±0.4mm. This high antibacterial activity of photo irradiated Au-NPs are due to the production of reactive oxygen species which is responsible for the inhibition of bacteria.

Subcutaneous gold threads in a patient with neck pain

Subcutaneous gold threads in a patient with neck pain

Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery: Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonOctober 1, 2016–February 5, 2017CatalogueEnglish Medieval Embroidery: Opus AnglicanumEdited by Clare Browne, Glyn Davies, and M. A. MichaelNew Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2016.336 pp.; 270 color ills.Cloth $75.00ISBN 9780300222005The Age of Opus AnglicanumEdited by M. A. MichaelLondon: Brepols

<i>Opus Anglicanum</i>: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery: Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonOctober 1, 2016–February 5, 2017Catalogue<i>English Medieval Embroidery: <i>Opus Anglicanum</i></i>Edited by Clare Browne, Glyn Davies, and M. A. MichaelNew Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2016.336 pp.; 270 color ills.Cloth $75.00ISBN 9780300222005<i>The Age of <i>Opus Anglicanum</i></i>Edited by M. A. MichaelLondon: Brepols

Gold thread implantation promotes hair growth in human and mice

Thread-embedding therapy has been widely applied for cosmetic purposes such as wrinkle reduction and skin tightening. Particularly, gold thread was reported to support connective tissue regeneration, but, its role in hair biology remains largely unknown due to lack of investigation. When we implanted gold thread and Happy Lift™ in human patient for facial lifting, we unexpectedly found an increase of hair regrowth in spite of no use of hair growth medications. When embedded into the depilated dorsal skin of mice, gold thread or polyglycolic acid (PGA) thread, similarly to 5% minoxidil, significantly increased the number of hair follicles on day 14 after implantation. And, hair re-growth promotion in the gold threadimplanted mice were significantly higher than that in PGA thread group on day 11 after depilation. In particular, the skin tissue of gold thread-implanted mice showed stronger PCNA staining and higher collagen density compared with control mice. These results indicate that gold thread implantation can be an effective way to promote hair re-growth although further confirmatory study is needed for more information on therapeutic mechanisms and long-term safety.

Clothing as a Technology of Enchantment: Gaze and Glaze in Hindu Garments

This paper explores the effects and uses of shining garments in the contemporary Hindu group Iskcon (International Society for Krishna Consciousness). Shiny, decorative surfaces perform a paradoxical function in Iskcon's temple in Mayapur, India, and are worn both by deities and devotees in specific contexts. The importance of glaze can be understood through the centrality of gaze in Hindu worship, i.e., the magical efficacy of darshan where the devotee imbues the physical properties and qualities of the deity image through the tactility of sight. The luminous surfaces of shiny metal and plastic sequins, and gold and silver threads on the temple altar create an apotropaic barrier where clothing acts as a technology of enchantment (Gell 1998). Garment technology, as it is argued here, compels devotion through the juxtaposition of opposing emotions and forces.

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About the Cover David L. Howell Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) is to the tributary system what the nematode is to developmental biology: a model organism studied in the expectation that insights into its workings will translate into other contexts. If only Chosŏn were as accommodating a model as Caenorhabditis elegans. It exercised too much agency to fit the ideal type of a loyal and plastic vassal state—so much, in fact, as to cast doubt on the ideal itself. Nevertheless, it is true that Chosŏn drew heavily from the stock of Ming and Qing institutions, practices, and ideas, even as it adapted them to its own circumstances and needs. The image on the cover is an example of a Korean adaptation of a Chinese model. It is a rank badge (hyungbae 胸背) from the nineteenth century. Often called “mandarin squares” in the West, such insignia were sewn onto officials’ surcoats as a mark of rank. Civil officials wore badges with representations of volant animals, such as cranes, while military officials’ badges bore images of tigers, leopards, and other fierce beasts. Chosŏn first borrowed this system of rank badges from the Ming in 1454, but the rules governing their use evolved during the succeeding centuries. According to guidelines codified in 1871, but likely put into place earlier, single animals represented low ranks, while pairs embellished the badges of high-ranking officials. Thus, the solitary leopard—actually, a “cloud tiger” (unho 雲虎)—on the badge shown here belonged to a military officer of low to middling court rank.1 HJAS thanks the Harvard Art Museums for their kind permission to reproduce the image and H. H. Kang for his research assistance. [End Page ix] Click for larger view View full resolution details: Artist unknown, Korean; Chosŏn dynasty, 19th century. Rank badge with white leopard decoration; polychrome silk-floss embroidery in satin stitch on a dark blue silk damask ground with gold thread border: H. 21.5 × W. 18.8 cm (87∕16 × 7⅜ in.). Harvard University Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Marilyn and Robert Hamburger, 2002.254. Photo: Imaging Department. ©President and Fellows of Harvard College. Footnotes 1. For more information on Korean rank badges, see Lee Eun-joo (Yi Ŭn-ju) 이은주, “Chosŏn sidae mugwan ŭi kil chimsŭng hyungbae chedo wa silche” 조선시대 무관의 길짐승흉배제도와 실제, Poksik 복식 58.5 (2008): 102–17. Copyright © 2017 Harvard-Yenching Institute

Creating Cultural Identity: Opus anglicanum and its Place in the History of English Medieval Art

The term opus anglicanum, as a designator of English national identity associated with embroidery and textiles, is unknown in any document written in England during the Middle Ages, but is used in papal and other European archives. The term has been questioned by a number of scholars who have suggested it may be a generic name used to describe a particular technique of attaching gold thread to an embroidered textile (underside couching). It is suggested in this article that the phenomenon of opus anglicanum during its golden age c. 1200–1400 was part of a wider European cultural development at a time when an appreciation of cultural identity as a transnational phenomenon emerged. The article goes on to examine the relationship between English pictorial artists and the craftswomen and men who made these textiles. It concludes with a case study of the orphrey associated with the Daroca Cope in Madrid — now associated with a designer in the artistic circle of the artist of the Wilton Diptych. The respect for, and reuse of, these works of art (many of which have survived through the care taken to preserve them in cathedral treasuries and private collections up to the present day) is an element in their continued importance as a part of our shared European heritage.

The Study on Textiles Storing in the Sakya Buddha Statue of statue of Sakyamuni at Yeongsan shrine of Songkwang temple

Songkwang temple, located in Suncheon city, Jeonnam, is one of the old temples. In the process of plating a Buddha statue with gold, at Yeongsan shrine of Songkwang temple, November, 17, 2015, it opened the storing Buddihist articles in the Buddha statue, and it discovered a letter of vow, records, and fabrics, etc. In a letter of vow, it is written as storing in the Sakya Buddha Statue in January, 1662, and it entailed the list of benefactor. However, it is presumed that they were stored in the Sakya Buddha Statue in the same time, because it is identical the date of a letter of vow and list of benefactor of relic in storing in the Sakya Buddha Statue, Avalokiteśvara of Gwaneumjeon Hall, appointed as cultural treasure No. 1660 in August 25, 2010. For Avalokiteśvara statue of Yeongsan shrine, including a letter of vow, it is stored in the Sakya Buddha Statue the yellow wrapper(Hwangchopokja) and complex gauze with supplementary gold thread. A letter of vow is the woven fabric with plain weave, and yellow wrapper is the patterned fabric of lotus pattern. The complex gauze with supplementary gold thread is the rare designed textile with flat strips of gold thread on the ground weave of dark brown 4-end complex gauze. Particularly, it is the pattern, not investigated up to now, mixed pattern with lotus, fish, and yin-yang. As a result of analysis of flat strips of gold thread used in complex gauze with supplementary gold thread, gold(Au) is the main component, and it was identified Ag, Cu, Fe, and C, etc. as sub-detected element. Because it is clear the period of the Textiles Storing in the Sakya Buddha Statue at Yeongsan shrine and maintains the state of storing time in the Sakya Buddha Statue, including color, it has very important historical worth in the study of fabric history.

The radiological appearance of gold thread cosmetic treatment

The radiological appearance of gold thread cosmetic treatment

전통 편금사에 사용된 붉은 접착제 특성 연구

전통 편금사에 사용된 붉은 접착제 특성 연구

A Review of Research Trends in Gold Implantation Therapy Focused on Gold Thread, Gold Needle and Gold Bead

A Review of Research Trends in Gold Implantation Therapy Focused on Gold Thread, Gold Needle and Gold Bead

Walking Threads: A Memory and a Reflective Speculation Inspired by Gilles Deleuze and Fèlix Guattari

In this short piece, Brian Schultis reflects on an experience of walking carrying a gold thread with four others in Aberdeen in Spring, 2014. Schultis first remembers the experience and then speculates at a possible theoretical interpretation. Following Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, he describes the event becoming a component of a haecceity, and suggests that the embodied memory of such and individuation may be a way of thinking about intimacy.

A Study on Reconstruction of Kumwonmun Jik-geumneung Excavated from Youndokudon Yongin

The study aimed to manufacture Pyeongeumsa and Pyeoneunsa based on data for research and analysis on artifacts regarding Kumwonmun Jik-geumneung Jangjeogori excavated from Youndokudon Yongin and reconstruct Kumwonmun Jik-geumneung by using a hand weaving jacquard loom. Through an analysis of the artifacts, it was found that the thickness of the thread was 0.138～0.233㎜ (warp thread) and 0.198～0.338㎜ (weft thread), and the width of Pyeongeumsa was 0.275 to 0.412㎜. The density was 69 strands/㎝ (ground weft) and 34 strands/㎝ (pile weft). For the pattern weave it was 1/2 3-piece ↖ weft face twill against the backdrop of 2/1 3-piece warp face twill. In particular, three strands of ground weft thread fell out every five or six strands at the back of gold thread, which showed the characteristics of gold in-woven textile of the late Goryeo Dynasty. As for the flat gold thread required to manufacture gold in-woven textile, an adhesive with 10% glue mixed with 1.5% red clay was used on a prepared paper. For the flat silver thread, gilt was attached based on 10% glue, and it was cut to 0.3 and 0.4㎜. Through the weaving, it was found that the appropriate thickness of warp thread was 21/6 (126D), while for weft thread was 21/3 2-strand (126D). As the result of the examination from the artifacts, the background was 2/1 3-piece ↖ warp face twill and the pattern was 71/2 3-piece weft face twill. For the gold thread weaving, alternate-strand 1/5 ↗ weft face twill was applied. The size of 1-repeat pattern was 17.5㎝ in Gyeonghyang and 10㎝ in Wihyang which was similar to the artifact. The color was assumed to be red for reconstruction based on paintings and literature from the early Joseon Dynasty. This study aimed to restore a forgotten weaving technology for gold-in woven textile and gain basic research data on traditional textile technology.

Control System Semi-Automatic Palembang Songket Shawl Using Splay Tree Algorithm Based ATMega 8

Songket shawl is handcrafted hereditary in South Sumatra, but is also a manufacture shawls for songket which is also typical of Palembang. Songket shawls device consists of makers crutch, stick motif maker, dividers, and bobbin. Furthermore, researchers will apply a calculation using the splay tree algorithm to identify, to detected and stop the process of command at the time of semi-otomamatis will be work, researchers will also discuss well with experts. Semi-automation weaving machines are expected to contribute the craftsmen to improve results weaving it’s , such as looms and supplies sensors and application programs that can be used and then will make the craft of weaving typical areas of South Sumatra. This research is expected to produce a patent for songket and scarf with a semi-automatic machine patents and developed with several motifs. This research will measure are performance of semi-automatic by showing results of measurement of the strength or speed DC motor to throw and pull the threads, be it gold thread and yarn. Limar, regulated Pulse Width Mudulation (PWM) so that the performance of motor speed can be adjusted, from measurement results are known in the hurling thread from a distance of 0 - 30 cm. When a thread already determined the maximum distance that the duty cycle of the PWM value of 0 cm distance position obtained 0 % duty cylce and from a distance of 30 cm till maximum gained 3.12% duty cycle. Furthermore, measuring the value of the AT Mega 8 is connected to the amplifier IC L293D DC motor with which the process of making a semi automatic loom requires a 12 MHz crystal so that the cycle speed to 12 MHz/12 = 1 MHz, which means time is 1 microsecond pulse period. Loom’s will be connected to a computer for programming process as data base in terms of the AT Mega 8 language in use, so that the output of the weaving songket shawl can be arranged with advance determined motives that would be desirable is useful to prevent or protect hurling thread - the thread excessive, so that motifs are in use should be appropriate.