Woman's Breast-Cover (ah khin)
Khami Chin
1920–1950
- Medium
- Cotton and silk, warp striped, warp-faced plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; embellished with discontinuous supplementary wrapping elements; ends embroidered with cotton and silk in buttonhole stitches; cotton, piled, knotted corner tassels
- Dimensions
- 74.9 × 44.4 cm (29 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.) Above measurements does not include corner tassels ranging in length from: 6.6-7.2 cm (2 5/8-2 7/8 in.) Weft repeat: reverses on center a×is
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
embellishedcotton (textile)silk (textile)needlework (visual works)costumeTextile
