Panel
Possibly 15th/16th century
Medium
Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, stripes of plain weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, and bands of two- and three-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps terminating in a plied warp fringe with bands of supplementary discontinuous bast fiber warps imitating an attached woven fringe
Dimensions
258.2 × 85.8 cm (101 5/8 × 33 3/4 in.)
Classification
weaving
Department
Textiles
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
181173
About the Artist
Unknown
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