Title

Woman's Magua (Semiformal Domestic Short Robe), China, 1880/1900, Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Woman's Magua (Semiformal Domestic Short Robe), China, 1880/1900, Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21B28_150

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

13.1Mo (409.4Ko) / 25.4cm x 12.9cm / 3000 x 1529 (300dpi)

Keywords

arts country China art Chinese costume clothes color design decoration decorative weaving robes robe dress paper location century textiles gallery coat fabric jacket sewing NEEDLEWORK clothing silk textile dynasty woven qing dynasty satin damask art gallery Colour 19th century Manchu nineteenth century object Unknown Art Institute of Chicago Quing Dynasty art centre Heritage Art Textiles 19th-century Art Institute Chicago laid work and couching embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in satin and stem stitches sleeve bands: silk warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave trim and closures: silk warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave Silk warp-float faced 7:1 satin damask weave facings: silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts sleeve facings: silk warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk in flat knot and Pekinese stitches lined with silk warp-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave