Silk fiber

Museum number:
9-15872a-m
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210915872a@2dm
Alternate number:
3662 (associated catalog number, UCDD)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Books" or bundles of 30 silk skeins each, bound in 3 places with cotton cord. 6 pure white, 6 grey and white. Some bundles disordered, but most in original condition.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Materials:
Cotton (textile) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Comment:
Part of life size diorama illustrating silk production, originally exhibited in the Japanese Pavillion at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The Diorama included six Japanese mannequins and other silk-production related materials.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #61: Oakland Museum of California (May 16, 1972–May 21, 2008) and S1984-1985 #32: Oakland Museum of California (May 16, 1972–May 21, 2008)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Silk fiber, accession number 9-15872a-m, described as Books" or bundles of 30 silk skeins each, bound in 3 places with cotton cord. 6 pure white, 6 grey and white. Some bundles disordered, but most in original condition.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Silk fiber, accession number 9-15872a-m, described as Books" or bundles of 30 silk skeins each, bound in 3 places with cotton cord. 6 pure white, 6 grey and white. Some bundles disordered, but most in original condition.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Silk fiber, accession number 9-15872a-m, described as Books" or bundles of 30 silk skeins each, bound in 3 places with cotton cord. 6 pure white, 6 grey and white. Some bundles disordered, but most in original condition.

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