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Chinese

Sleeve band, 1800s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown, artist

Culture

Chinese

Title

Sleeve band

Year

1800s

Medium

Silk; gauze, embroidered with silk in counted stitch

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • silk

Type

  • Fashion,
  • Costume Accessories

Credit

Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

34.682A

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Applied Image

March 11 - June 21, 1998

Silk gauze has a very open grid weave, allowing for an embroidery pattern created through counted thread work, similar to needlepoint done today. The embroidery thread passes over one thread of the woven fabric for each stitch.

Off the Cuff

March 15 - June 9, 1996

Related

RISDM 34-682ab.jpg

Chinese

Pair of sleeve bands (huan xiu), ca. 1862 - 1908

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