Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 3:1 broken twill weave with supplementary wefts bound in plain interlacings; label: silk, plain weave; painted with ink; over paper
- Dimensions
- 35.2 × 12.2 cm (13 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Repeat: 15 × 5.6 cm (5 7/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian