Part of a Malay Festive Hanging (tirai)
1801–2000
- Medium
- Pieced cotton, plain weaves with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvets; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave; glazed cotton, point twill weave; embroidered with silk, cotton, paper fiber padding, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, gold-eaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, in satin stitches; laid work and couching; embellished with gilt-metal coils and spangles; edged with emboshed silvered-metal shapes, ployester, rayon, and glassbead fringe; lined with cotton, plain weaves
- Dimensions
- 36.5 × 223.6 cm (14 3/8 × 88 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
embellishedsilk (fiber)21st Centuryneedlework (visual works)indonesianTextilepaper (fiber product)