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Description: | Woman's skirt in orange silk with two flat panels surrounded by a purple border and decorated with symbolic motifs in gold thread couch work and seed stitch. Between these two panels the skirt is pleated, with embroidery of which the motifs continue along the outer surfaces of the pleats, though the threads themselves do not. Motifs on the front panel are phoenix, butterflies, grasshopper, qilin, chrysanthemum, peony, and magnolia. In the border the decoration is of floral sprays, phoenix, butterflies, castanets, musical stone and rhinoceros horn. On the lower part are floral sprays, butterflies and phoenix, and in the border along the hem are birds, floral sprays and an animal, possibly a deer. Undyed cotton fabric waistband is secured with knot buttons of the same fabric. The skirt is in part lined in pink silk.
caption: General view of object no. 1994.294. | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | silk Silk Symbols skirts Embroidery Textiles thread Skirts textile | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-48568 | Go to resource |
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