Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'Z' twill interlacings
- Dimensions
- 33 × 11.7 cm (13 × 4 5/8 in.); Repeat: 13.7 × 11.1 cm (5 3/8 × 4 3/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian