BERLIN, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- More than 30 experts and scholars, including participants from China and Germany, examined how textile knowledge was created, recorded and transmitted across cultures at a five-day international symposium that concluded here on Sunday.
Held under the theme "Textiles as Knowledge Systems: Practice, Codification, and Transfer," the event marked the 10th annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles (IASSRT).
The main academic sessions were held on Thursday and Friday at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, with eight panels covering topics such as early resist-dyeing and printing techniques, Sasanian and post-Sasanian silks, and textile production and trade in Central Asia.
In addition to the academic sessions, the event included study tours and cultural visits in Berlin, offering participants opportunities to exchange ideas and learn firsthand about museum collections and conservation practices.
The symposium was jointly hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the Tracing Patterns Foundation, and Zhejiang University's Silk Art and Silk Road Culture Research Center, which hosts the UNESCO Chair on Silk Roads Heritage.
At the closing ceremony, IASSRT President and Zhejiang University professor Zhao Feng announced that the next symposium would be held in Mexico. "The move would further expand academic exchanges and cooperation among textile researchers across regions," he said.
Founded in 2015, IASSRT has held 10 international symposiums and built a research network connecting textile scholars and institutions in different parts of the world. ■