Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound in 1:4 weft-float faced satin interlacing; label: silk, plain weave; painted with ink, glued over paper
- Dimensions
- 35.4 × 11.7 cm (13 7/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian