Hangzhou is renowned as a typical embodiment oftraditional orientaculture, boasting beautiful sceneries,many famous personalities,profound cultural heritage,and brilliant literary and artistic achievements. In recent years,contemporary artistic elements in Hangzhou have unleashed enormous vitality with its cultural and artistic ecological structure being rapidly geared tointernational standards.A series of important art activities, such as the establishment of Bauhaus Museum of Design b yChina Academy of Art,Cai Guoqiang Art Exhibition held by Zhejiang Art Museum and etc,have enriched people’s spiritual and cultural life and extended Hangzhou's cultural influence. which have plaved an active role in Hanezhou’s development into a modern city.Currently, the International Triennial of Fiber Art held in Hangzhou has once again rendered this city a center of worlds attention.,displaying Hangzhou’s distinctcultural and artistic charm to the whole world.
        Fiber art is both an ancient and young art category,being closely linked up with man’s thought and life.As one of China’s six ancient silk capitals and“the Capital of "Craftand Folk Art” Hangzhou enjoys a long history in traditional fiber and silk manufacturing and is tiohtly bound to fiber art.This famous historical and cultural city has a long history of silk culture.acting as a storyteller for the development of silk in theoriental areas.As ear as Liangzhu Culture period dating back 4.000 or 5.000 years,residents in Hangzhou have grasped such skills as mulberry planting.silkworm breedingsilk manufacturingsilk weaving and etc.In Han Dynasty silk produced in Hangzhou has already been sold abroad via the Silk Road. In Tang Dynastythe damask silk produced in large quantities in Hangzhou was reputed as the best in the world and was chosen as a kind of imperial tribute In Southern Song Dynasty,Hangzhou was described as“the Capital of Silk”or a city in which the sound from looms was spreading from door to door and many women were wearing cloud-like silk gowns. In Ming and Qing Dynasty.Hangzhou Manufacturing Bureau became one of the three largest manufacturing bureaus in China. After the founding of Peoples Republic ofChina,the silkindustry in Hangzhou enjoyed newer and faster development Established in 1992.China National Silk Museum is the first nationwide silk museum and is also the lareest silk museum in the world.For thousands of years,“Hangzhou Silk" never ceases its pursuit for exquisiteness and quality and its integration into Hangzhou’surban culture has established itself as a culture brand of this city.

        Hangzhou’s silk and the West Lake have stepped into the international arena side by side.The West Lake is listed as world cultural hentage and China Academy of Art situated by the West Lake is the first comprehensive national art institution of higher learning as well as an important symbol ofHangzhou culture. In 1986.Varbanow Tapestry Research Center co-founded byZhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (predecessor of China Academy of Art )and Zhejiang Artists Carpets Manufacturing Company became the first institution in China to engage in creating and teaching modern fiber art.In the next year the three works created by this research center were selected to be exhibited in Switzerland’s Lausanne International Biennale of Tapestry,bringing our country’s modern fiber art out to the world for the first timeToday,Varbanov Tapestry Research Center is expanded into Fiber and Space Art Studio, having nurtured many accomplished young artists in the field of fiber art and playing an important role in promoting the contemporariness of our country’s fiber art education.
Zhe iang Art Museumalso situated by the West Lake,adheres to its founding principle“emphasizing contemporariness, reflecting on history, keeping afoothold in Zhe iang and gearing towards the world"andits academic purposepublicitydiversity and openness”With its first-class exhibition space and modern facilities acting as an international art stage, it has successfully held many exhibition activities featuring high artistic caliber great academic influence and positive social response,evolving into one of the most important modern museums in China.
        Relying on the unique cultural heritage of the city“the Capital of Silk”and the college’s advantage in teaching and research. personnel and creation,Hangzhou and China Academy of Art jointly hold the International Triennial of Fiber Art. which has gathered works of many ingenious artists from all over the world in the modern exhibition space of Zheiang Art Museum and China National Silk Museum.displaving the frontier direction of internationa fiber art creation and elaborating from multiple angles of view on “fiber.an ancient material which is inseparable with human life.This not only aids in developing Hangzhou into an important international center of contemporan fiber art, but also brings new vitality and content for Hangzhou to enrich the public’s cultural and artistic life establish a national center for cultural innovation and improveitsinternationalization level.Wish Hangzhou International Triennial of Fiber Art become increasingly better and establish itself into a cross-border stage for contemporary experimental art.
        This foreword is especially dedicated to Hangzhou International Triennial of Fiber Art.