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Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
25.06.2026
Verlag
Si Xiang Fei YangSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
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180 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798235408401
Three years ago, an apprentice walked into the Jinling brocade workshop and ruined her third bolt of silk before lunch.
Yun brocade is a stubborn art: continuous warp, broken weft. The most patient hands spend a decade learning it. She was eight years old when she arrived, and she could not learn it. For three years she sat at the loom and cried into tangled thread, until the master of the workshop stopped scolding her, sat down beside her, and began, quietly, to untangle every knot she had madeone thread at a time, for a full half hour, without a word.
He never told her what he saw in the girl who could not weave. He only taught her. Year by year, her hands grew steadier, and the cloud brocade that came off her loom began to be the finest in the workshop. The master had a brocade of his ownwoven years ago, sent to the imperial palace, never returned to him. It was, he once told her, his life's work and his unblemished reputation. He asked her, one day: If I wove a new bolt, would you finish it for me?
One inch of brocade, the masters say, demands three thousand six hundred shuttle passesevery one of them a small, deliberate devotion. Some love stories are not told in words. They are told in the things we make with our hands, in the silence of the loom, and in the years a master spends teaching an apprentice to weave what he cannot say.
A quiet, slow-burn historical romance about a three-year apprenticeship, an unreturned bolt of brocade, and the love a master leaves inside his apprentice's hands.
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