Arts of Asia CELESTIAL SILKS and PRAYER BEADS

Arts of Asia: "CELESTIAL SILKS and PRAYER BEADS, the titles you will have seen that head the cover picture of this unusual July-August 2004 issue, represent the two main articles, Celestial Silks Chinese Religious and Court Textiles and �Prayer Beads in Asian Buddhist Cultures. The articles are aptly summarized by the circa 1850 red silk Daoist priests robe from the Chris Hall Collection Trust. For our magazine the robes symbols represent the hoped for long longevity of our publication, which was founded in mid-1970 and by January 1971 was already in place."