This photo taken on June 12, 2026 shows details in a Yunjin brocade exhibit at Nanjing Yunjin Brocade Museum in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Xinhua/Li Bo)

Today, high-end Yunjin brocades are still made mainly by hand. In 2006, the wooden-loom Zhuanghua hand-weaving craft of Nanjing Yunjin brocade was among the first batch to be listed as China's national-level intangible cultural heritage. In 2009, it was inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List.