Under the influence of the strategy of building a culturally strong country, this study consolidate modern design with Dunhuang culture, focus on the problems of the simplistic quilting design of down jackets, insufficient targeted research and lack of international competitiveness, and strive to seek solutions from local culture. This paper studies the visual translation path of Dunhuang flying apsaras line drawing elements in the quilting design of down jackets. Taking the quilting design of down jackets as the carrier, this paper analyzes and extracts the line drawing elements of flying apsaras, introduces the compositional principles of modern Chinese painting，and  explores the design path of down jacket quilting lines. Attempt to construct a feasible visual translation path between the line drawing elements of flying apsaras and the quilting design of down jackets. The visual translation of the flying apsaras line drawing elements can be achieved through the path of down jacket quilting design dominated by the composition form of modern Chinese painting. However, it is necessary to pay attention to the requirements of the down jacket production process and flexibly solve the practical conflict between design and process. This exploration has certain value for the inheritance and development of Dunhuang flying apsaras art. 

Xiaofeng Wang, Canming Liu. A Study on the Visual Translation of Line-Drawing Elements from Dunhuang Flying Apsaras in Down Jacket Quilting Design. Frontiers in Art Research (2026), Vol. 8, Issue 2: 24-31. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2026.080205.

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