Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:4 satin interlacings
- Dimensions
- 35 × 12.2 cm (13 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Repeat: 20.3 × 10.8 cm (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