Sutra Cover
1590–1599
- Medium
- Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, gauze weave with supplementary patterning wefts; label: silk, plain weave; painted with ink; glued over paper
- Dimensions
- 35 × 12.2 cm (13 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 10.3 cm (4 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
silk (fiber)mingEast AsianChinese (culture or style)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingasian