Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning bound in 1:4 weft-float faced satin interlacings; label: silk, plain weave; painted with ink, paper
- Dimensions
- 34.8 × 12.2 cm (13 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Repeat: 20.2 × 11.1 cm (8 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian