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A work made of silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, chevron twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in laidwork and couching.

Fragment (Dressing Fabric)

Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 16th century

China

China

Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, chevron twill weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in laidwork and couching

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