Ceremonial Shoulder Cloth

· 19th century (?)

Silk, cotton, bast fiber, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-wrapped silk and gold-paper-wrapped bast fiber (probably ramie), bands of weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave and plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; attached fringe of silk and silver-paper-wrapped silk, and gold-paper-wrapped bast fiber (probably ramie), wrapped and knotted cut fringe

Art Institute of Chicago · CC0 1.0

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