Tapis (Ceremonial or Wedding Skirt)

· 19th century

Tapis (Ceremonial or Wedding Skirt)

Cotton, silk and gilt or silvered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; embroidered with back, surface satin, stem and trammed loop stitches; mica and mirrors

Art Institute of Chicago · CC0 1.0

Lindy Arts