Embroidered strip

Museum number:
9-15180
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3687 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
EMBROIDERED STRIP. Leather, cotton, silk, metallic, ribbon. Sewing, embroidery (satin, stitch, couching). Flesh color ground, multicolor, gold, pink and red. Embroidered strip in necktie shape embroidered w. basktet-textured satin stitch in multicolor outline w. couched gold. Fruit, flowers, bats, butterflys on fret ground of flesh color. Tip is finished w. leather, satin and ribbon. 23 inches by 4⅜ inches.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
China
Verbatim coll. place:
CHINA
Culture or time period:
Chinese
Materials:
Leather and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 23 inches and width 4 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Embroidered strip, accession number 9-15180, described as EMBROIDERED STRIP. Leather, cotton, silk, metallic, ribbon. Sewing, embroidery (satin, stitch, couching). Flesh color ground, multicolor, gold, pink and red. Embroidered strip in necktie shape embroidered w. basktet-textured satin stitch in multicolor outline w. couched gold. Fruit, flowers, bats, butterflys on fret ground of flesh color. Tip is finished w. leather, satin and ribbon. 23 inches by 4⅜ inches.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Embroidered strip, accession number 9-15180, described as EMBROIDERED STRIP. Leather, cotton, silk, metallic, ribbon. Sewing, embroidery (satin, stitch, couching). Flesh color ground, multicolor, gold, pink and red. Embroidered strip in necktie shape embroidered w. basktet-textured satin stitch in multicolor outline w. couched gold. Fruit, flowers, bats, butterflys on fret ground of flesh color. Tip is finished w. leather, satin and ribbon. 23 inches by 4⅜ inches.

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