A Complete Study of Textiles from Dunhuang is one of the key publication projects of China’s Eleventh Five Year Plan. It has been initiated and sponsored by Donghua University， and includes collaboration with the China National Silk Museum， the British Museum， the Victoria and Albert Museum， the British Library， the Musée Guimet， the Bibliothèque Nationale de France， the State Hermitage Museum， the National Museum of India， the Dunhuang Academy and the Lushun Museum etc. The aim is to produce a systematic and comprehensive scientific study of all the known silk textiles from the Mogao Grottoes， Dunhuang. This is a multi-volume publication project， with each volume representing a different location. The first volume in the series covers the Dunhuang textiles in the UK.