International forum on "Silk Road" opens in Hangzhou
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More than 120 experts from 20 countries gathered at a forum in east China's Hangzhou City on Monday to discuss the Silk Road, an ancient trade route between East Asia and Europe.

The three-day forum was organized by the China National Silk Museum and has attracted scholars of archaeology, linguistics, anthropology, ethnography and art history from home and abroad.

At the conference, participants shared their latest research on silk trade-related topics.

China National Silk Museum and Chengdu Museum also jointly published research findings on the reconstruction of pattern looms from the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), which were unearthed from Laoguanshan in Chengdu in 2013, and have been regarded as an important invention in the history of textiles and technology.

Twenty global institutions announced the founding of the International Association for Study of Silk Road Textiles at the opening ceremony of the conference, including Needham Research Institute of the UK, and the Danish National Research Foundation's Center for Textile Research.

"The association is aimed at connecting all these research institutions along the Silk Road to increase cooperation in conducting research and sharing resources," said Zhao Feng, director of China National Silk Museum.

In the next five years, it will focus on research including a Silk Road mapping project and a glossary of historical textile terminology, Zhao added.

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