Bed Curtain
Manchu
1650–1750
- Medium
- center panel and inner borders: silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings; outer border: silk, warp-float faced 5:1 twill weave with weft-float faced 1:2 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; lined with cotton, plain weave
- Dimensions
- 235.8 × 252.2 cm (92 1/2 × 99 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- weaving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
silk (fiber)Textilepaper (fiber product)weaving
