China Tours offer you the opportunity to visit Yuan Hou Silk market as part of a tour arrangement and you can be picked up from your Beijing Hotels. Yuan Hou Silk is located in the West of Liangguang Road in Chongwen district, Beijing. Yuan Hou Silk is a well known royale garden with the Temple of Heaven Opposite, and is situated East of Beijing near oldest Commercial Street – Qianmen big street and is only a 3 kilometre walk from the Tiananmen Square and can also be accessible by a public bus.
Yuan Hou silk is responsible for promoting their silk culture and developing the tourism industry. Anyone persons is allowed to go to the Yuan Hou silk market and will find that it is a really enjoyable experience if a group of you go with a tour bus or a group of friends or even both. It is definitely advised that if you visit the Yuan Hou silk market that you bring your Yuan’s with you as a lot of bargaining goes on and they genuinely want people to spend their money there.
Yuan Hou Silk Jacket
The entrance of the Yuan Hou silk company is like accessing a museum with beautifully silk embroidered robes encased on the walls in glass boxes. As you walk up the stairs (either in a group or on your own) a guide who is a member of the silk market introduces himself and introduces you to Yuan Hou Silk whilst standing behind a table that has small blobs of silk swimming in sinks of water. He then brings the group over to a machine that has strings of silk grinding on a conveya belt.
After this process he brings the group into another room where a woman is standing over large sinks of water removing worms from blobs of silk. These pieces of silk are then stretched over a mound of silk, shaped like a cocoon, which is left to dry, hence producing silk. Then an example of three or four women are stretching the silk clumps over a mattress to show on lookers how a silk quilt is made.
It is slightly difficult to explain in detail about this process as you need to experience it yourself to get a full grasp and understanding of how silk is produced. However, after the silk exhibition you are free to wonder around the shop to see what is available to buy. The shop is designed as a show room with model beds dressed with silk quilts and pillow cases and surrounding shelves with different silk designs.
Yuan Hou Silk Quilt
Yuan Hou Silk’s scope of business includes silk beddings, Traditional clothing, handmade silk carpets and silk embroidery, cashmere garments. The traditional clothing section sells women’s silk dresses and jackets. They even sell men’s suits. The shop also sell small gifts such as pierces, glass cases, make up bags and jewellery boxes. These items make great gifts for friends and perfect Christmas presents if you’re from abroad as each item is carefully embroidered and is a very rare product to find makes it a more personal and unique present to recieve.
The shop is quite large and because it is a great delicacy could be wondering around the shop for hours looking at all the different things, which is why it is probably best to visit Yuan Hou silk while on tour where time is limited, otherwise you’ll get carried away and never be able to leave. If you’re really desperate then the Silk Company under trades the processing of clothes according to orders placed from customers at home or from overseas.
They can make a silk quilt on spot and provide such services as mail delivery and generalized arrangements such as shipping garments. Beware though as this way of ordering can be risky especially with clothing, as the sizes differ from ordinary clothing. For example if you’re usually a small it is best to buy a medium. If you’re a medium it is probably best to buy a large as the Chinese tend to be a little smaller then western size.
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