Woman's Beaded Breast-Cover (ne kouk)
Khumi Chin
1925–1950
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave with patterning wefts; ends embroidered with cotton in double running stitches; all edges finished with cotton, glass-bead and seed-pod fringe terminating in outer silk or silk and cotton-knotted fringe
- Dimensions
- 98.2 × 12.6 cm (38 5/8 × 5 in.); End fringes: H.: 5.1 cm (2 in.); Long edge fringe: H.: 3.9 cm (1 1/2 in.); Shorter edge and center fringes: H.: 2.4 cm (7/8 in.); Measurements including all fringe: 106 × 19.8 cm (41 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
cotton (textile)seedsilk (textile)costumeknottingTextileweavingglass beadsembroideringplain weaving
