Skirt

2003-38-60

From: China | Indochina

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Object Number 2003-38-60
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience China | Indochina
Section Asian
Materials Cotton | Silk
Technique Woven | Dyed | Sewn | Embroidered
Description

Woman's cylindrical skirt, consisting of horizontal panels of silk and cotton sewn together. Top (?) panel of undyed cotton with blue silk cotton embroidered with orange and white flowers sewn to the front; followed by an undyed panel and a dark blue panel. The bottom of the skirt consists of silk cloth decorated with weft stripes woven in green, black, red, and tan with float weave and possible Ikat stripes. Float weave and yarn-dyed.

Length 105.5 cm
Width 64 cm
Credit Line Gift of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum (also known as the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2003
Other Number 1900.1.1156 - Other Number

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