Woman's Breast-Cover (marankite, lian pi)
Mru Chin
1925–1955
- Medium
- Cotton, warp striped, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; embellished with discontinuous supplementary wrapping elements; ends embroidered with cotton and wool in buttonhole stitches; couching; selvage fringe of cotton with glass beads; and end fringe of cotton and glass beads, knotted around wool
- Dimensions
- 70.6 × 34.3 cm (27 3/4 × 13 1/2 in.) End fringe: 1.0 cm (3/8 in.) Edge fringe: .3 cm (1/8 in.) Knotted corner tassels: 1.4 cm (5/8 in.) Measurements with fringe: 69.5 × 34.2 cm (27 3/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
embellishedcotton (textile)wool (textile)fringedneedlework (visual works)costumeknottingTextilecouching (embroidering)glass beadsembroideringplain weaving
