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fabric panel Song brocade
late 19th century
This item is a good example of Song brocade produced in the Suzhou area during the late Qing dynasty. The fabric has a silver satin ground and polychrome weft patterns. The patterning is composed of...
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Laosong courtship bauble [quilted holiday ornament]
late 20th-early 21st Century
A patchwork 'courtship bauble' or holiday ornament, traditionally made by women and used in courtship games of New Year festivals by the Thai Lao Song villagers. The woman would twirl the bauble into...
mat panel
18th century
The central patterning is composed of a pair of ruyi, an evergreen plant and a pair of swastikas surrounded by chrysanthemums and peonies. The motifs on each of the four corners are the Buddhist eigh...
panel of silk brocade
19th century
This is a piece of polychrome Yun brocade produced in Nanjing. It has a golden yellow satin ground with polychrome weft patterning of large cranes with peach or linzhi twigs held in their beaks. Aro...
fabric length
Tatsumura Institute of Textile Art (1938-)
late 20th-early 21st Century
Length of warp-faced silk brocade depicting a repeating pattern of six-petalled flowers surrounded by pendants and small birds. The design evokes the harmony of of bird song and the sound produced by...
panel of Yun brocade
early 17th century
This item is a panel of Yun brocade in typical Ming brocade style, with a dark blue ground and polychrome weft patterning. The design consists of large bao xian flowers, an auspicious floral motif wh...
wall hanging
late 18th century or early 19th century
This would have hung in the large central room of a traditional Chinese house during celebrations. The principal colour variations have been achieved by the kesi weaving technique, but finer details ...
Weave Truth With Trust
Duxbury, Mabel (1924-2010)
1944-c. 1950
A loose-leaf, hand written manuscript which includes annotations and corrections. The work has been submitted as a marked educational assignment, but some chapters appear to be subsequent additions. ...