Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in plain interlacings; label: silk, plain weave; painted with ink; glued over paper
- Dimensions
- 35 × 12.1 cm (13 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Repeat: 11.7 × 10.8 cm (4 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian