Textile strip

Museum number:
9-15181
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
1151 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032 and Acc.3032.04
Description:
Strip. Silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns. Plain weave plus gauze weave, embroidered. Blue ground, varicolored designs. Butterfly, floral motives. 35½ inches by 3 inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley) and Henrietta F. Brewer
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
CHINA
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Materials:
Metal and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Textile samples
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 3 inches and length 36 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile strip, accession number 9-15181, described as Strip. Silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns. Plain weave plus gauze weave, embroidered. Blue ground, varicolored designs. Butterfly, floral motives. 35½ inches by 3 inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile strip, accession number 9-15181, described as Strip. Silk, gilt paper wrapped yarns. Plain weave plus gauze weave, embroidered. Blue ground, varicolored designs. Butterfly, floral motives. 35½ inches by 3 inches.

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