## Photographer’s Artistic ‘Conversation’ With Silk Weaver Practicing Ancient Chinese Art - Copied! Kesi is not an easy word to say for an English speaker (it’s pronounced kooh-su), but the art form is recognizable to most Westerners who have even a passing interest in Chinese culture. The beautiful silk tapestries made by kesi weavers peaked as an art form around the twelfth century. In modern China, there are only eight people who are officially recognized as inheritors of the traditional kesi weaving technique. One of them is Jingwei, a young man from Suzhou who spends weeks weaving…