Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings
- Dimensions
- 33.3 × 13 cm (13 1/8 × 5 1/8 in.); Repeat: 11 × 10.8 cm (4 3/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian