Object name: Textile / Object class: Figure- and animal-derived motifs / Function: 4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15601, described as Lined piece; silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns; twill weave, brocaded, damask on twill weave lining; green and gold ground, orange, white, designs; red and brown lining; dragon, floral motives.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-5632, described as Blue brocade strip; fragment; silver and gold gilt paper wrapped; multicolor clouds and dragons; 13.25 in x 58 in

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15605, described as Lined piece; silk, flat silver paper strips, cotton lining; twill weave, brocaded, plain weave lining; orange ground, varicolored designs, unbleached lining; chrysanthemum, dragon motives; 25 1/2 in. x 25 1/2 in.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15273, described as Hanging? Priest's robe? Silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns. Compound twill weave, brocaded; plain weave lining. Varicolored; lining of 1 set blue, 1 set red threads. Phoenix, floral motives. 82 inches by 45½ inches.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21656, described as Wall hanging or table runner; robe pieces formed into a single long panel from two, matching gold dragon textiles. Frame is rainbow water stripes from the bottom of an imperial robe edged with black bias on both inner and outer edges. 5 toed dragons, bats, birds, lotus flowers, and Buddhist symbols enhanced with hand painted details, on a background of lattice pattern which encloses mallow flowers alternated w/ swastikas within each diamonds, over water, waves and rocks (plus a fish); yellow, green, several shades of blue. pink, white, gold, red, Light weight cotton backing in beige. Tapestyr (Kossu) weave plus painted details

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15206, described as EMBROIDERED BROCADE. 4.1. Metallic, silk. Brodade, couching. Green, gold. Green brocade w. couched embroidery in gold metallic thread making a flame-edged circle (poss. to go behind a statue of Buddah). Brocade has a design of crane and dragon medallions alternating w. floral des. Stained and dirty with clean edges on all sides. 22 inches long by 12 inches wide.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21209, described as Blanket cover. “Fa”. Rectangular two-layered piece. Top consists of central handwoven cloth, extensively embroidered, framed on 4 sides by red commercial cloth, this framed by wider border of off-white cloth (with mitred corners!). Bottom layer consists of continuation of cloth used for outer top border, folded over and sewn across back. Small pieces of brightly patterned printed commercial cloth sewn onto both corners at one end. Pattern cloth: ground cloth off-white, very loosely woven, extensively decorated with 2 symmetrical dragons running length of cloth, and a variety of other motifs. Looking through back of cloth, warp direction appears to run lengthwise (as would be expected from dimensions). Most motifs run in the warp direction and are very loosely embroidered with often uneven edges. No pierced threads noted, but several pattern threads noted which do not stay within one shed. Most of dragons, and several other motifs, run in weft direction and are probably also embroidered (rather than placed into cloth during weaving by supplementary weft). Many small irregularities in dragon edges and details. Motifs are embroidered in blue, blue-green, green, red, brown, pink, yellow, and black. Bodies of dragons and border of “H”s are black. Blanket cover: 142 cm x 90 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21208, described as Decorated panel to be sewn onto blanket cover. “Fa”. Fish and paired water dragons. REctangular off-white loosely woven plain weave cloth covered with a variety of motifs, including two pairs of large dragons, done in discontinuous colored thread in both warp and weft directions. Edges of cloth are Bordered by a band of the same repeating pattern running in both warp and weft dirctions. Again, pattern threads are discontinuous in both directions. Border pattern is blue; other motifs done in blue, red, green, yellow, and black. Question is whether motifs are embroidered and/or achieved by supplementary warp or weft. Discontinuous supplementary warp patterning would be exceptionally difficult, unnecessary, and pointless; also, some of the warp-direction motifs (eg, the border) lack warp floats on either side of cloth in large diamonds in pattern; it would be completely impractical to weave a repeating warp pattern this way. Warp direction patterns can be assumed to be embroidered. Weft direction patterns are much more likely to have been woven into cloth as discontinuous supp. weft. However, in that instance, why not do all motifs as supp. weft? Also, one piercing thread noted on outer part of green dragon, a weft-direction motif; green thread pierces one of ground cloth threads, indicative of embroidery. Note that ground cloth woven loosely enough to allow a skilled embroiderer with good eyesight to keep embroidery threads within woven sheds. 126cm x 53.2cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15582, described as Lined piece; silk, flat gilt paper strips, cotton lining; satin, brocaded, plain weave lining; dark blue ground, gold designs, light brown lining; dragon, floral motives; 6 in. x 22 in.