Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip, gauze weave with supplementary patterning wefts; label: silk, plain weave; painted in ink, glued over paper
- Dimensions
- 35.2 × 11.8 cm (13 7/8 × 4 5/8 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 18 cm (7 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian