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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 9-15453a,b, described as Two piece robe; silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns; K'ossu tapestry weave, satin weave lining; blue ground, multicolored designs, blue lining; 51 1/2 inches long; dragon, bat, cloud, fish, Buddhist symbol motives.

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.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21620, described as Imperial Era roundel of a dragon; black ground w/ tan supplemental patterns of a dragon, flames, waves. Greek key pattern along edge of circle.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-17029, described as Silk cloth. Lengthy piece, rolled up. Damask, gold on gold with repeated dragon design. 76 1/2cm wide

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-17695, described as Embroidery: white silk satin worked w/ multicolor silk floss in bright hues; male & female phoenix in fantasy landscape w/ peonies. White paper mount. Mount stamped w/ "Hung Tai Dealers of Embroidery CO. #4 Lyndhurst Terrace, Hong Kong". Made for toursit trade, brought by refugees from Shanghai. 42.6 cm L. w/ mount.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15541, described as Strip; silk wrap, cotton, paper weft; twill weave, brocaded; red ground, silver designs; dragon, cloud motives; 24 1/4 in. x 34 in.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-4901, described as Textile fragment, yellow silk, embroidered with dragon; scales in shades of blue; triangular in shape; w. 142 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-16603, described as Textile. Hand woven rust colored silk with ground of gold wrapped thread which is the character for Long LIfe (the Shou). At the top is depicted the Queen of the Western World, Hsi Wang Mu, riding on a phoenix. Below her is the God of Longevity and below them are the eight Taoist Immortals. 106cm x 62cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-15609, described as Lined piece; silk, cotton lining; damask, plain weave lining; grey, brown, orange lining; flower, medallion, dragon motives; 24 1/2 in. x 25 3/4 in.

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