One of the products of ancient Chinese culture, mounting of calligraphy works and paintings is a special decoration craft deriving from traditional calligraphy and painting art. Despite being a subsidiary part, it also bears historical, artistic, and humanistic information just like calligraphy and painting. It has kept developing and enriching over more than 1,000 years. Focusing on the silk patterns of mounting of calligraphy works and paintings, this book collects and sorts out the decorative silk patterns of part of the ancient calligraphy works and paintings collected by museums all over the world, including The Palace Museum, National Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum, National Museum of China and other domestic museums, as well as Metropolitan Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Freer Gallery of Art, British Museum, Tokyo National Museum and other overseas museums. By recording pattern names, color configuration, basic frames, pattern restoration and other information, this book not only broadens the vision of researches on traditional Chinese pattern but provides references for the creation of artworks such as ancient and modern mounting of calligraphy works and paintings.
